Surrendering the Old for the New
Giving up everything and gaining even more
Jesus was no stranger to being tested during His ministry. As Christians, we can expect nothing less. While sometimes people have sincere questions about our faith, often skeptics and people who want to find flaws in what we believe will test us. Today we will look at how Jesus handled one such situation, not by how He answered but by how He kept silent.
“Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.
And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them. And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
