John 7:53-8:11 Neither Do I Condemn You
July 23, 2023

Bonus Lesson: The Reliability of Scripture

WE CAN TRUST OUR BIBLES - We can have

our Bibles God has worked through the millennia to protect and His word


2 timothy 3:16

“16 All Scripture is by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for , for in righteousness,”

How People Think Bible Translation Works
the transmission of the

was not done in and it’s not like the game


How Bible Translation Actually Works
Modern Scholars have upon thousands of generation manuscripts to review when they are making a modern translation with almost variances

“No other work from Graeco-Roman antiquity is so well attested by manuscript tradition as the New Testament. There are many more early manuscripts of the New Testament than there are of any classical author…”
~W.F. Albright

John 7:53 - John 8:2

often stayed around the Mount of Olives when He was in (Luke 21:37; Mark 13:3)

John 8:3

The

did not care about the woman’s , she was being used to Jesus

a few other places they Pharisees tried to trap Jesus:

John 8:5-6a
the Law of

did say that adultery is punishable by
the law also said that there should be a and that the should be as well

Deuteronomy 22:22

John 8:6b

Jesus writes in the sand

there are a lot of theories but no one knows exactly what that was about

John 8:7
Jesus invites anyone without

to cast the first

also consider Luke 6:42

John 8:9

Experience often

us and humility has a way of our compassion

since everyone sins, no one except Jesus can condemn her

John 8:10

Romans 3:23 For all have

and fall of the glory of God;

we are on even footing before the

when we engage with

- we must come from an attitude of and compassion

John8:11

has all the power and authority to make us for our sins but He chooses to

Romans 8:1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus,”

God’s Grace does

look away from He does not excuse or sin - He our sin - washes us clean in His blood and us to walk forward

the all encompassing

and grace of Jesus allows us to boldly for Him and forgive .