The Woman Caught in Adultery, The Faith Translation, John 8:1-11

The story known as the woman caught in the act of adultery from the gospel of John chapter 8 verses 1-11.

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1 Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

2 And early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him, and He sat down and taught them (the things concerning Himself from the law and the prophets).

3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery; and when they had set her in the middle (of them),

4 They said to Him, Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of adultery.

5 Now Moses in the law gave orders that such (a man or woman) should be put to death: but what do you say?

6 They said this, tempting Him, (if He would break the law of Moses or at least their carnal understanding of it, for they knew Jesus’ own teaching was that He did not come to condemn anyone to death), so that they might have grounds to accuse Him. But Jesus (without answering them) stooped down and began to write with His finger on the stone pavement (signifying how the very law they asked Him about was written on stone with His finger, the finger of God).

7 So when they continued asking Him, He lifted up Himself, and said to them, the one of you standing here that has (by your own hand) kept the entire law, without ever stumbling in one point, let him cast the first stone at her.

8 And again He stooped down and wrote on the stone pavement (signifying how God wrote the law on stone a second time after the people had committed the true adultery which the law spoke of, when they made themselves another god, the golden calf).

9 And when those who accused her heard this, being judged guilty by their own hearts (which guilt all who try to attain to life by their own hand will experience in their own heart), left one by one, beginning with the oldest, even to the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the middle.

10 When Jesus had lifted up Himself, He saw (that the word He had spoken removed all accusation, just as it did when He was raised up in the resurrection, removing the death that all their days had accused man that they were not the children of God) and there were no more accusers but only the woman, He said to her, Woman, where are your accusers? has any man condemned you to death?

11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said to her, neither do I condemn you to death, (which death formerly accused you of being an orphan in the earth who must bring forth your own life and the fruit thereof): go, knowing that the accusation that death brought never came from God, your Father, who only desires to shepherd you with His life, where you rest from all your labors (to establish your own life).