7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”
Jesus just stops them in their tracks with his simple words. No great take but I like this reminder to just keep my mouth shut and even better if I can keep my mind from wasting anytime judging others. I have my own issues to worry about, I can just taking the judging of others off my plate---he's got this.
Throughout this chapter Jesus must be getting frustrated, he is repeated sharing the message in very clear words that he is God's son, he is what they have all been waiting for per their own studies. Yet rather than be over joyed at being so fortunate to be in his presence they are looking to pick him off. No matter what he says he can't get through their thick skulls. It can imagine the feeling of sadness to the point of getting angry with them. Listen. Listen. Listen. argggh.
side note: 33 They answered him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?”
Probably zero biblical importance but I just found the relationship of Abraham to slaves was interesting given our own history of slavery and an Abraham in the USA.
knut
8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
ReplyDeleteEvery time I read this chapter, I wonder what he was scribbling in the dirt. It references him doing it twice within this short story. Jesus is never written about as a person with a lack of focus or purpose. He is never distracted from his task. So, there must be a purpose for him doing this.
hmm