John 8
READ John 8 COMMENTARY: : 9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. (1651 “convicted” [elegcho] means bring to light, to shame by exposure, reprove, rebuke, convince, tell one’s faults, refute, to correct, to expose, or to find fault with.) DEVOTION: What’s wrong with this picture? They had a woman who was caught in the act of sinning. If she was caught in the act of sinning, there had to be another person present. Where was the other person? The punishment for the sin was death in the law of Moses. What was the problem? They had only brought one party to the stoning. Jesus never condoned sin. In this confrontation Jesus…



