A Woman Caught in Adultery - Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives, but early the next morning he was back again at the Temple. A crowd soon
1. Jesus delivers the woman taken in adultery.12. He declares himself the light of the world, and justifies his doctrine;31. promises freedom to those who believe;33. answers the Jews who boasted of Abraham;48. answers their reviling, by showing his authority and dignity;59. and slips ...
1. Jesus delivers the woman taken in adultery.12. He declares himself the light of the world, and justifies his doctrine;31. promises freedom to those who believe;33. answers the Jews who boasted of Abraham;48. answers their reviling, by showing his authority and dignity;59. and slips ...
This essay explores the problematic story of the "woman taken in adultery" (John 7:53-8:11) in relation to logocentric structures that define the Gospel of John. Jesus's two acts of writing on the ground, unique to this story, point to texts that we cannot read and which are ...
"Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery," Is this really happening? Jacob ben-Joseph wondered. One minute a crowd was sitting in the early morning shadow of Solomon's Porch. Only doves cooing and children playing quietly at the edges of the crowd were heard besides Jesus' powerful but gent...
2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him; and he sat down and taught them. 3 And the scribes and the Pharisees bring to him a woman taken in adultery, and having set her in the midst, 4 they say to him, Teacher, this woman has...
And Jesus went unto mount Olivet. 2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple: and all the people came to him. And sitting down he taught them. 3 And the scribes and Pharisees bring unto him a woman taken in adultery: and they set her in the midst, 4 And said...
and reference to her, not as kinswoman, but as “the mother of my Lord.” Doubtless the promises she had received through Zechariah would have filled Elizabeth with hopes for the early appearance of the Messiah; now there was the physical sign of the movement of the babe in her womb, ...
The world loves its own advice and hates the doctrine of original sin. Why? The flesh is fun and we see paraded before us in our own lives, in the daily news, the results of the flesh’s fun: sin and death, divorce and adultery, adultery and STDs, hatred and murder. The world ha...
This is the problem I will address because all other problems flow from this sexual war, the inability of man and woman to fully enjoy a loving relationship. If man and woman were at peace, then there would be peace in the world. But, there is no peace. So, let us b...