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Article by Jack Wellman
Jack Wellman is a father and grandfather and a Christian author, freelance writer, and Prison Minister. Graduate work at Moody Bible Institute. His books are inexpensive paperbacks that are theological in nature: “Teaching Children The Gospel/How to Raise Godly Children,“ “Do Babies Go To Heaven?/Why Does God Allow Suffering?,“ "The Great Omission; Reaching the Lost for Christ," and “Blind Chance or Intelligent Design?, Empirical Methodologies & the Bible."
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Part of the problem with interpreting this passage is that Jesus, under the Law of Moses, could not break the Law which required that He, for one, had to be a witness of the adultery to pass judgment and He wasn’t. There are other details in these Mosaic Rules that were required as well, which again, didn’t allow Jesus to cast any stones. One thing He could do was tell her to “Go and sin no more” He never overlooked her sin. Yes, it was a trap to see if Jesus would break the Law He was under and therefore be guilty of sin for not following the Law.