God’s mission to the sinner The sin of

God’s mission to the sinner

The sin of those who deserve to be stoned is equal to those who carry the stone.
John 8

They were trapped. To throw a stone meant they were without sin and only God is sinless. To walk away was to admit they were sinners.
They tried to trap Jesus but in the end they were trapped by him.
What clinched it was what Jesus did in the writing on the ground.
No one knows but it hasn’t stopped people guessing what he wrote!
A Jewish custom of doodling when thinking.
A list of he sins of the stone-throwers.
Whatever it was they had never seen Jesus write on the ground and it dislodged them.
Maybe because Jesus was a walking Old Testament, we should look there for some help?
When Jeremiah was facing his own accusers offered a prayer to God and said (17:13), “those who turn away from you will be written in the dust because they have forsaken The Lord, the spring of living water.”
Jesus was showing them that they were the ones who were forsaking the living water that he had already been speaking about in chapter 7.
This is why the sin of those who deserve to be stoned is equal to the sin of those who carry the stone.