Thou who is without sin

So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said to them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. John The officers answered, Never man spake like this man. Proverbs There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

Proverbs ,5 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him…. Deuteronomy At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. Psalm But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? Matthew Judge not, that ye be not judged…. In the first episode, an officer is shown video of himself shooting and killing a man.

But since those rosy scenarios were first floated, the California political scene has grown more crowded. France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress. Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job. This is the first and principal point at which we can stanch the wastage of teaching energy that now goes on.

He was converted and baptized, and was the first Hebrew instructor at Harvard college. He held it, but it was without pressure; without recognizance of the delight with which he once grasped it.

And I have not had the first morsel of food prepared from this grain offered me since I reached the shores of Europe. Here, however, Jesus begins by writing on the ground John And, once He has offered His simple, direct counter-challenge, He will go back to writing in the dirt.

In the meantime, the men will press the issue, repeatedly asking Jesus what He plans to do about this woman caught in sin. The trap laid by the Pharisees seems to present Jesus with a dilemma. The law does call for death for adulterers Leviticus ; Deuteronomy However, Roman law prohibits Jewish leaders from using the death penalty John , and Jesus is known to be a "friend of sinners" Mathew Jesus seems to be stuck between angering Rome and alienating His followers, and overtly defying the very Scriptures He has preached.

As always, though, Jesus' response cuts through the trap. His writing in the dirt is mentioned twice in this passage, suggesting that whatever He wrote was a deliberate part of His response.

Perhaps He wrote relevant Old Testament verses, or the names and sins of some of those present.