Rescuing a Lamb
“but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the middle, they told him, “Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act. Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. What then do you say about her?” They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger. But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her.” Again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground. They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle. Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, “Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?” She said, “No one, Lord.” Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more.”” (John 8:1-11 WEB)
The woman was dragged out like an injured lamb, and thrown in the midst of ravenous wolves.
They were snapping their fangs at her, howling for bloodshed.
But the good Shepherd protected His lost lamb. With one swing of the rod, He chased the vicious wolves away.
The lamb, trembling and alone, looked up with squinted eyes.
She thought it was the noonday sun shining at full power, but it was the Shepherd.
With a gentle and loving voice, He led her into His sheepfold, where she lived safe forevermore.
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How come Jesus could spare the woman from being stoned? Doesn’t the Law say that those who are caught in adultery should be stoned?
It is because Jesus took her punishment at the cross. He bore her sins, and ours. Everyone can freely receive forgiveness of sins by placing their faith in Jesus as Lord.
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