John 8:1-11, (Part 1)

 John 7:53-8:11 (Part 1)

So one thing the leaders want to do here is to stop Jesus from teaching and the second thingthat want to accomplish is to find something they can acuse Jesus of. 

John 7:53-8:2

1-Setting the scene, Jesus is teaching

John 7:14, “About the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and began teaching”

John 8:3-5, 

2-“The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery”

John 8:5, The Law of Moses commanded us “to stone such women” (Lev. 20:10, Deut. 22:22) 

(Walk through their error in law understanding already established)

John 8:6-8, 

3-“This they said to test Him”

Other question reference where they tried to test Him before.

John 8:9-11, 

4-“But when they heard it” 

In Galilee, his was able to heal and teach more, because they probably were less educated about the details of spiritual matters or the law of Moses. But they were humble and more teachable. In some way I think the story shows Jesus was able to humble people by showing the ones that wanted to judge other their on mistakes. Jesus know we are without hope without Him. So how He handle the sin problem for any of us is not a big deal for Him. If he doesn’t show any of us mercy we are doomed regardless of how commited we are to do go in the future.

John 3:17-20, 36, 

(John 5:30, 39-40, 45-47) 

John 7:19, “Has not Moses given you the Law?”

Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me? (John 8:46)

1. John 7:22-24, you misunderstand the intent of the Sabbath
2. John 7:49, they thought they were in the right because of their knowledge of the law. Luke 18:9-14, (Pharisee and Tax collector)
3. John 7:51, they were not applying the law in its original intention, “Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?”
4. John 7:52, they had missed the details of the law and prophets

Examples (Luke 16:19-31, 27-31)27  

Isa. 7:14, Born of a Virgin (Matt. 1:21-24) 

Micah 5:2, Why did they think in Bethlehem? Because of the Wise Men, (Matt. 2:1-6)

Jer. 31:15, Herod kills the Children, (Matt. 2:16-18)

That Joseph was from Bethlehem (Luke 2:1-7)

The Shepherds and the Angels (Luke 2:8, 17-18)  

Isa. 40:3, Mal. 3:1, That John the Baptist was Elijah (Matt. 3:3)(Matt. 11:10)(Matt. 17:10-13)(Luke 1:17) 

2 Kgs. 14:25, That Jonah was from Galilee (Matt. 12:38-42, 16:1-4) 

Isa. 9:1-2, Isa. 42:6-7, The Prophecy of Light shining on Galilee (Matt. 4:12-16) Matt. 2:23 

Jer. 23:5-6, Mal. 3:1, Zechariah’s Prophecy, Luke 1:67, 76-79, 

John 8:6-8, “This they said to test Him”

Matt. 21:23-27, 25, “The baptism of John from where did it come from? From heaven or from man?

(Setting why he was teaching)(Another attempt to stop His teaching)

Mark 12:18-27, Sadducees, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife, but no child

“Is this not the reason you are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God?

“Have you not read in the book of Moses in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him saying, I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are quite wrong.” Ex. 3:1-4, 

Questions

1. Mark 10:1-10, Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife? (Moses)(divorce is adultery.  Matt. 5:27-30, 31-32, 28, 
2. Mark 10:17-31, what must I do to inherit eternal life?
3. Mark 11:27-33, By what authority are you doing these things, or who gave you this authority to do them? (Afraid of the people)
4. Mark 12:13-17, Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? (Why do you put me to the test?)
5. Mark 12:18-27, Whose wife will she be at the resurrection? (Moses)
6. Mark 12:28-34, Which commandment is the most important of all?

1. Mark 12:35-37, How can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David? David himself calls him Lord. So how is he his son?

They bring a woman caught in the act of Adultery and question him what do you say about this? Lev. 20:10, Deut. 22:22

So at this point Jesus has said something or somethings that made them aware that He at least in their opinion knows better than them. They are trying to determine is He a hertic they can accuse?

Going back to the end of 7 with “search the scriptures and see no prophet has come from Galilee” we learned they was not as expert in the scriptures as they thought because they made a claim that was false along with other poor determinations in line with where the Christ would come from and where Jesus actually came from. It couldn’t have said much about their investigative skill to not even be aware that Joseph was from Bethlehem but moved to Nazareth. That would have been in records they would have had access to. They were not even responsible enough to seek the geneolgy records. 

But here again the law they claim serve and live by would have said if one is caught in Adultery both of them are to be stoned. The obvious question is why are they just bringing the woman? Where is the person they caught her with? Where is the man? Why did they not bring him? Lev. 20:10, Deut. 22:22