John 8:1-11 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.”
John 1:14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
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Riffraff
Part 1 Crime Scene
Part 2 The Dirt
John 8:7 “If any of you is without sin, let him begin stoning her.”
John 8:9 “…until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there.”
Part 3 Grace
John 8:10-11 Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” “No one sir,” she said. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”
1 Peter 2:24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.
Jesus saw people differently
The rich young ruler
Zacchaeus
Samaritan woman
The woman who anointed his feet
The man with leprosy
The woman who had been bleeding for twelve years
Blind Bartimaeus
Children
The tormented man among the tombs
The centurion
Peter
Zacchaeus
Samaritan woman
The woman who anointed his feet
The man with leprosy
The woman who had been bleeding for twelve years
Blind Bartimaeus
Children
The tormented man among the tombs
The centurion
Peter
Widow with 2 coins
The criminal beside him on the cross