The Life of Jesus

Doesn’t the Tanakh say that the Messiah is from the seed of David and comes from Beit-Lechem, the village where David lived?”

So the people were divided because of him.

Some wanted to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him.

The guards came back to the head cohanim and the P’rushim, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring him in?”

The guards replied, “No one ever spoke the way this man speaks!”

“You mean you’ve been taken in as well?” the P’rushim retorted.

“Has any of the authorities trusted him? Or any of the P’rushim? No!

True, these ‘am-ha’aretz do, but they know nothing about the Torah, they are under a curse!”

Nakdimon, the man who had gone to Yeshua before and was one of them, said to them,

“Our Torah doesn’t condemn a man — does it? — until after hearing from him and finding out what he’s doing.”

They replied, “You aren’t from the Galil too, are you? Study the Tanakh, and see for yourself that no prophet comes from the Galil!”

Then they all left, each one to his own home.

But Yeshua went to the Mount of Olives.

At daybreak, he appeared again in the Temple Court, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them.

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.

Then they said to him, “Rabbi, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery.

Now in our Torah, Moshe commanded that such a woman be stoned to death. What do you say about it?”

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.

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.”

Then he bent down and wrote in the dust again.

On hearing this, they began to leave, one by one, the older ones first, until he was left alone, with the woman still there.

Standing up, Yeshua said to her, “Where are they? Has no one condemned you?”

She said, “No one, sir.” Yeshua said, “Neither do I condemn you. Now go, and don’t sin any more.”

Yeshua spoke to them again: “I am the light of the world; whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light which gives life.”

So the P’rushim said to him, “Now you’re testifying on your own behalf; your testimony is not valid.”