The Life of Jesus

Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Christ will come from the line of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”

So there was division in the crowd because of Jesus.

Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him.

Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring Him in?”

“Never has anyone spoken like this man!” the officers answered.

“Have you also been deceived?” replied the Pharisees.

“Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?

But this crowd that does not know the law, they are under a curse.”

Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who himself was one of them, asked,

“Does our law convict a man without first hearing from him to determine what he has done?”

“Aren’t you also from Galilee?” they replied. “Look into it, and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.”

Then each went to his own home.

But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

Early in the morning He went back into the temple courts. All the people came to Him, and He sat down to teach them.

The scribes and Pharisees, however, brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before them

and said, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.

In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such a woman. So what do You say?”

They said this to test Him, in order to have a basis for accusing Him. But Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with His finger.

When they continued to question Him, He straightened up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to cast a stone at her.”

And again He bent down and wrote on the ground.

When they heard this, they began to go away one by one, beginning with the older ones, until only Jesus was left, with the woman standing there.

Then Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are your accusers? Has no one condemned you?”

“No one, Lord,” she answered. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Now go and sin no more.”

Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

So the Pharisees said to Him, “You are testifying about Yourself; Your testimony is not valid.”