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Passages Jesus might have written with his finger - Jn 8:1-11

stevision 2018. 9. 15. 20:30

The original Korean text: http://blog.naver.com/stevision/220120517637

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>> 2 Early in the morning he came again to the temple; all the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. 3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst 4 they said to him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such. What do you say about her?" 6 This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. 7 And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her." 8 And once more he bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. 9 But when they heard it, they went away, one by one, beginning with the eldest, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. 10 Jesus looked up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?" 11 She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you; go, and do not sin again." <<

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In the Bible, God himself wrote something to man twice. The first case was when God gave Moses the Ten Commandments in Mount Sinai (Ex 20:1-17). God gave Moses the tablets of stone on which he wrote the Ten Commandments himself. The Bible says that the God wrote the Decalogue with his finger (Ex 31:18).

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The other case is John, chapter 8. Here, Jesus (the God) wrote something on the ground of the temple, but the details are unknown. The Bible says only that Jesus wrote on the ground with his finger. As the Decalogue was so important that the God of the Old Testament himself wrote it on the tablets of stone and gave them to men, so the words that the Son of God, the Creator, who had become a man, wrote on the ground of the temple must be the commandments that are absolutely necessary for us. What do you suppose the contents are?

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The words were written on the temple court, therefore they are probably commandments that we must observe in the temple (in the church where Jesus is the head.) Might not they perhaps be the following commandments?

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1. Do not challenge the authority of God to love and forgive in the temple (the church).

2. The temple is where God's forgiveness of sins is proclaimed.

3. The temple is not where the saints accuse others of sins.

4. Nevertheless sin is not tolerated in the temple. (Jesus said to the adulteress, "Do not sin again!"

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Who is a saint in the church of Jesus? The forgiven woman remained with Jesus, but all who tested Jesus (the God) and refused to repent of their sins and tried to condemn other person to death left the temple where Jesus was. This symbolically shows the qualification of the saints in the church of Jesus Christ.

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