John 8:1-11
Jesus Compassion for a Sinner
1 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 4 and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” 6 They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 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.” 8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
9 At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. 10 Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
11 “No one, sir,” she said.
“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”
Matthew 24:35
The Words of Jesus
35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
We have read where Jesus never left us any books to read, or articles of wisdom about God to study...But it is not that He could not write...He did write something and it is written about in the Bible...When a group of vigilantes have in there hands a woman caught in the act of adultery, He was questioned about following the Law of Moses and having her stoned to death, right then and there...As the accusers question Him, His patience shows...He does not answer them at once, even though He is surrounded by His opposition armed with stones...
Instead of an immediate or quick answer, He crouches down on the ground and writes something...How powerful would these Written Word or Words of His been, just coming from Him...The Words in the sand were both powerful and divinely wise...He wrote something very important for the accused girl...Whatever He wrote, it made the teachers of the law and the Pharisees stop and read (them)...His writing must have been so amazing, that they waited for His answer...His delayed spoken answer to them was "Let anyone who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her."... All the accusers left after reading what He had written and heard His answer...He made the accusers examine themselves and reflect on their own sins that they had done in their lives...
What He wrote would be a Divine Written Word or Words...It would be something the teachers of the law and Pharisees would probably remember for quite some time, if not forever...We do not know what He wrote, and we probably never will...But because He wrote these words, we know that they had a strong, powerful, and good influence on everyone that day...No matter what He wrote or spoke we are still influenced by the Love of His words, that will never pass...