Oh the questions I have...

What would we do? What would I do? What would we have done if we would have been in Jesus' shoes? Would we have condemned the woman like the religious leaders did? Would we have cried out in righteous indignation at the woman? How dare you? What were you thinking?

Would we have responded like Jesus? Would we have had mercy for the woman? Would we have extended the offer of forgiveness? Would we have required penance?

And where was the man? I presume there was a man involved in the adultery. What about him? Why were they not accusing him? Why was he not brought to the kangaroo court? Were only women not allowed to commit adultery?

¹But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. ²At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. ³The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group ⁴and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. ⁵In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” 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. ⁷When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.” ⁸Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.

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. ¹⁰Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”

¹¹“No one, sir,” she said.

“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”

- John 8:1-11

Oh, the grace, mercy and forgiveness of Jesus! We - I have so much to learn!!