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John 7:53-8:11
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7:53Then they all went home,
8:1but Jesus went to the
8:2At dawn he appeared again
in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down
to teach them.
8:3The teachers of the law
and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand
before the group
8:4and said to Jesus,
“Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.
8:5In the Law Moses commanded
us to stone such women. Now what do you say?”
8:6They were using this
question as a trap, in order to have a basis for
accusing him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his
finger.
8:7When they kept on
questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who
is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”
8:8Again he stooped down and
wrote on the ground.
8:9At this, those who heard
began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was
left, with the woman still standing there.
8:10Jesus straightened up and
asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
8:11“No one, sir,” she said.
“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of
sin.”
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1)
According to
verse 7:53 where did everybody go?
o They all went home.
2)
According to
verse 8:1 where did Jesus go?
o Jesus went to the
3)
According to
verse 8:2 what did Jesus do when he appeared again in the temple courts at
dawn, where all the people gathered around him?
o Jesus sat down to teach them.
4)
According to
verse 8:3 what did the teachers of the law and the Pharisees do when they brought
in a woman caught in adultery?
o They made her stand before the group.
5)
According to
verse 8:4 what did the teachers of the law and the Pharisees address Jesus as?
o They addressed Jesus as teacher.
6)
According to verses
8:4 and 8:5 what did the teachers of the law and the Pharisees say that the law
commanded to be done to a woman caught in the
act of adultery?
o Such a woman should be stoned.
7)
What is
accomplished concerning the legalistic righteousness of the Law when such a woman is stoned?
o Legalistic righteousness of the Law against sin is fulfilled.
8)
According to
verses 8:4 and 8:5 what did the teachers of the law and the Pharisees say to Jesus
concerning the woman caught in the act of adultery?
o They asked Jesus for his opinion concerning what to do
with the woman, given that the law of Moses commanded them to stone her.
9)
What do the Ten
Commandments say about adultery, given Exodus 20:14?
o You shall not commit adultery.
· The facilitator asks a specific participant to read
out loud Exodus 20:14 that says,
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14You shall not commit
adultery.
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10)
What does the law
of Moses say about the consequence of adultery for the adulterer and the
adulteress, given Leviticus 20:10?
o Both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to
death.
· The facilitator asks a specific participant to read
out loud Leviticus 20:10 that says,
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10If a man commits adultery
with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and
the adulteress are to be put to death.
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11)
What was missing
in the action of the teachers of the law and the Pharisees in bringing in only the
adulteress?
o They should have brought in the adulterer as well.
12)
According to
verse 8:6 what was the intent of the teachers of the law and the Pharisees in
posing the question to Jesus?
o They were using the question as a trap in order to have a basis for accusing Jesus.
13)
According to
verse 8:6 what was Jesus’ response?
o Jesus
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Bent down.
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And started to
write on the ground with his finger.
14)
What was the message
Jesus intended to convey by writing on the ground with his finger, given Exodus
31:18?
o Jesus intended to convey the message.
o That
o He is the Lord who inscribed the Commandments on the
two stone tablets using his finger on
· The facilitator asks a specific participant to read
out loud Exodus 31:18 that says,
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18When the Lord finished
speaking to Moses on
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15)
According to
verse 8:7 what did Jesus do when the teachers of the law and the Pharisees kept
on questioning him?
o Jesus
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Straightened up.
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And said to them that
any one of them who was without sin could be the
first to throw a stone at the woman.
16)
According to
verse 8:8 what did Jesus do after making the remark?
o Again Jesus
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Stooped down.
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And wrote on the
ground.
17)
According to
verse 8:9 what happened at this juncture?
o Those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older
ones first.
o Until
o Only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing
there.
18)
Why did the older
ones go away first?
o It is because the older ones felt more keenly the
impact of sin on their lives.
19)
What could be
concluded about how everyone of those who brought
in the woman felt upon hearing Jesus’ remark?
o Everyone of them felt the impact of sin on their lives.
o Such that
o Everyone of them went away without insisting on her punishment.
20)
What did the
teachers of the law and the Pharisees see in the woman that they failed to see in
themselves?
o They saw only the woman’s sin but not their own.
21)
What did Jesus’
remark do to the teachers of the law and the Pharisees?
o Jesus’ remark forced them to be honest with themselves
about their own sin.
22)
According to
verses 8:10 and 8:11 what was the woman’s reply to Jesus’ answer as to whether
there was anyone left to condemn her?
o No one.
23)
According to what
Jesus said in verse 8:11 what was his judgment of the woman?
o Jesus told her
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That he did not
condemn her either.
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And that she
should leave her life of sin.
24)
What did Jesus
demonstrate to be the more important matter than the fulfillment of legalistic
righteousness of the law against sin in
the way he dealt with the woman as a law breaker?
o Repentance and restoration of the law breaker is more
important.
25)
What did Jesus
show to be the party that can condemn law breakers using the law?
o Only those who are without sin can do it.
26)
Are we in a
position to use the law to condemn law breakers and why?
o We are not in a position to.
o Because
o We all are sinners.
27)
What makes Jesus’
prioritization of the fulfillment of legalistic righteousness of the law against sin and the repentance and restoration
of the law breaker authoritative?
o Jesus is the Lord who gave the law, specifically the
Ten Commandments.
o And he is without sin.
28)
What does the
bible say is the purpose of the law, given Romans 3:19-20?
o Through the law we become conscious of our sin.
· The facilitator asks a specific participant to read
out loud Romans 3:19-20 that says,
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19Now we know that whatever
the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may
be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
20Therefore no one will be
declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the
law we become conscious of our sin.
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29)
What do we need
to become conscious of before we would repent of our sin?
o We need to become conscious of our sin.
30)
How did the woman
become conscious of her sin?
o When she was threatened with stoning in accordance
with what the law commands.
31)
What might be the
factor that had contributed to the woman’s repentance if indeed she had
repented, given the way Jesus dealt with her?
o Jesus’ grace for her.
32)
How did the
teachers of the law and the Pharisees who brought in the woman become conscious
of their sin?
o When Jesus said to them that any one of them who was without sin could be the first
to throw a stone at her.
33)
What held in
check the desire of the teachers of the law and the Pharisees to have the woman
stoned?
o Their becoming conscious of their sin did.
34)
What is the testimony
Jesus gave of himself and of humanity?
o Jesus is the Lord.
o And everyone is a sinner.
o But there is grace from the Lord for sinners
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