...have placed Him in a difficult position. "As they pressed Him to answer. He stood up and said to them: 'Let him who is without sin among you cast the first stone.'" (Jn 8:7). We know how they all left, one by one, without casting a single stone. "Let him who is without...

...much the more as no one .can flatter himself that he does not deserve these words of the Christ: " Let him who is without sin among you cast the first stone." The kindness we show them is a comfort to them: in default of sympathy, they should find the indulgence...

...who had treated her this way, as he stoops and writes thoughtfully in the dust before answering them? "Let him who is without sin among you cast the first stone at her." Then he ignores them all and turns back to his writing. One by one, each of her accusers looks inside...

...a low groan. "And next, for that 1 know your heart, and am right sure and certain that 'tis far loo merciful to let her die, or even so much as suffer,...last stone, Stephen, when she is brought so low." "ORachael.Rachael!" "Thou hast been a cruel sufferer, Heaven reward thce!" she said, in compassionate...

...adultery from the pulpit. The point of the incident is that Jesus did not condemn the woman. He simply said 'Let him who is without sin among you cast the first stone', and they all quietly slipped away leaving Jesus alone with the woman. His last words were that he did...

...information. Furthermore, the words of our Lord seemed to support this view: "Judge not lest ye be judged"; "Let him who is without sin among you cast the first stone"; "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." Yet between Voltaire's rationalistic and relativistic...

...and appeared to take no heed of what Dassed. But suddenly he roused himself from his abstraction, and said, "Let him who is without sin among you cast the first stone at her ;" and then bent down again to the earth. The corruption of morals among the Jews of that time is notorious;...

...contained in scriptural passages, two already noted: "Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord" (Romans 12:19), "Let him who is without sin among you cast the first stone at her" (John 8:7), and "Judge not that ye be not judged" (Matthew 7:1). Presumably what is being ruled out...

...commitment becomes personally dangerous. The clarity of Jesus's analysis of violent unanimity, such as "let him who is without sin among you cast the first stone," provokes a crisis. The community of accusers is threatened with disintegration. If they are to remain...

...the Gospel incidents: the weeping woman crouching at the feet of Jesus. . . . Listen to his words, "Let him who is without sin among you cast the first stone." How many White Christians have had the audacity to throw the first stoner In contrast, arguing that...