But this is my understanding.
talmidim said:
Interesting... Especially if it was those scriptures He was writing in the sand before He spoke! I will have to research this a little! I tippah my kippah!
2 At daybreak, he appeared again in the Temple Court, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them.
3 The Torah-teachers and the P'rushim brought in a woman who had been caught committing adultery and made her stand in the center of the group.
4 Then they said to him, "Rabbi, this woman was
caught in the very act of committing adultery. 5 Now in our Torah, Moshe commanded that such a woman be stoned to death. What do you say about it?"
6 They said this to trap him, so that they might have ground for bringing charges against him; but Yeshua bent down and began writing in the dust with his finger.
7 When they kept questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "The one of you who is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her."
8 Then he bent down and wrote in the dust again.
9 On hearing this, they began to leave, one by one, the older ones first, until he was left alone, with the woman still there.
10 Standing up, Yeshua said to her, "Where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
11 She said, "No one, sir." Yeshua said, "Neither do I condemn you. Now go, and don't sin any more."
Firstly if she was caught in the very act, she couldn't have been alone, could she?
Secondly, I have a different understanding than Koilas, could be wrong but this is my understanding right now.
The woman is brought to him
The accusation is made
the penalty for this act is reiterated ( but not in full
)
Yeshua's reaction?
He bends down and starts writing something in the dust.
They persisted in asking him what he would do so he straightened up and told them that the one who was without sin could cast the first stone. That only one there that was without sin was he, himself. He doesn't even remain standing and facing them, but gives them a chance to "bow out gracefully" in grace. I belive he was writing in the dust the names of the accusers, starting with the eldest ( who should have had more wisdom?) to the youngest. Then when he returned he started putting next to each name the sins they had commited, from the eldest to the youngest.
He who was without sin, he who could be the only one righteous to do so, did not.
I believe this is a similar teaching of judgement he gave in Matt.
1 "Don't judge, so that you won't be judged.
2 For the way you judge others is how you will be judged -- the measure with which you measure out will be used to measure to you.
3 Why do you see the splinter in your brother's eye but not notice the log in your own eye?
I beleive that they were actually breaking the law of Moshe because the law says:
This is the law as it is written:
10 "
'If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, that is, with the wife of a fellow countryman,
both the adulterer and the adulteress
must be put to death. Lev20
That is the law and this is also part of HaShems instructions:
2 In order to obey the mitzvot of ADONAI your God which I am giving you,
do not add to what I am saying,
and do not subtract from it. Deut 4:2
This also brings to mind as to why King Daavid was not stoned?
HaShem judged him.