Hi, I'm new to Bible and I have a question:
On John 8, the pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery and said to Jesus that Moses said that they should stone the woman, then Jesus said “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her".
The laws that Moses brought were directly from God and although I didn't read the entire OT yet, I don't remember it saying that they should stone a woman for adultery, but God said that they should stone a man because he was working on sabbath day.
It's not the same thing, obviously, but why Jesus didn't keep the laws from Moses and God of stoning people?
For the law came by Moses, ... but grace (i.e. forgiveness) and truth came by Jesus Christ. John 1:17
Jesus didn't come to enforce the OT Law (of Moses). The Law was part of the Old Covenant and was made specifically with the descendants of Jacob/Israel. The Israelites/Hebrews attempted to keep their side of the Law for more than a millennium and utterly failed.
The Old Covenant was given by God to demonstrate the futility of trying to maintain a relationship with God based upon our own worthiness. We don't do enough RIGHT and do too much WRONG to consistently please God.
The Mosaic Covenant also demonstrates that sin cannot be expunged from the human race through punishing or even eliminating those that sin. Despite these efforts which, admittedly, were not consistently applied during the Old Covenant period, ... sin proved to be quite consistent ... and even prolific.
Hebrews 8
6 But now He (Jesus) has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.
7 For if that
first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a
second. 8 Because finding fault with them, He says: “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when
I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— 9
not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt;
because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord. 10 For this
is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 11 None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. 12 For
I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”
Jesus came to offer God's new solution for enabling relationship between Himself and humanity. He would, simply, FORGIVE sin ... at the asking of those with those who were pleased to have communion with Him. No more sacrificing of animals to atone for individual sin. Rather, one for-all-time sacrifice for the sins of ALL humanity ... enabling forgiveness upon request ... for those maintaining communion with God.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son ... that whoever puts their trust in Him will not utterly perish, but will have everlasting life with Him.