November 13th, 2022 - Caring Encounters: Jesus Hospitality – Radical Forgiveness

Caring Encounters: Jesus Hospitality – Radical Forgiveness
Scripture Passage:  John 8:1-11

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Young Adults and Youth Group

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A Very Strange Passage
“The earliest manuscripts and many other ancient witnesses do not have John 7:53-8:11”

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The Woman
3 the teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery [and] they made her stand before the group

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The Pharisees
6 They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him

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The Law (?)
5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?

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Jesus Is Acting Weird
6b But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger

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Jesus Finally Answers
7b “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”

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A Matter of Conscience
9 [they] began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there

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Jesus’ Hospitality

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Radical Forgiveness
11 “neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”