If you are free of sin…
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"There is judgment without mercy to him who does not have mercy" (Jas 2:13);
1. They come with a trap to Jesus
If Jesus authorizes the stoning, the Pharisees will report him to the Romans for criminal wrongdoing, for the Jews were not permitted to administer capital punishment under Roman rule.authorizesthe stoning, the Pharisees will report him to the Romans for criminal wrongdoing, for the Jews were not permitted to administer capital punishment under Roman rule.
If Jesus forbids the stoning, the Pharisees will discredit him as a false messiah who contradicts Moses, for the Torah classifies adultery as a capital crime.
The genius of his response is that it turns the tables on the Pharisees and forces them into their own trap.
They believe that they themselves have no sin, but if they stone the woman, the romans will take them as criminals.
They go confused and at the eyes of the crow they are known sinners, but they themselves believe that they are without sin, and the woman who was accused as public sinner left with out sins.
2. What are you asking for your brothers.
And that is big lections for us God no need that we accuse the sins of others persons, he knows very well all the sins, he wants that we ask mercy for others.
"There is judgment without mercy to him who does not have mercy" (James 2:13);
This is a dally lection for our spiritual life, when our brother committees a sin, do no ask to the lord like this pharisees to stone them, or like those apostles to bring down fire from heaven.
Ask him, lord have mercy of my brother as you have been merciful with me.
The things that you are asking for your brother God will give it to you in abundance, if you ask punishment God will bring it also to you in abundance, if you asking mercy God will overflowing your hearth with mercy.
Try from this day, in your daily life, in each fault: God has mercy of my mom, my brother, my boss, you will experience the peace, and God will give them the conversions.
You can be persecutor or the defender of your brother.
The mother of Saint Felipe, O Felipe may God make you a saint.
He exclaimed, "Philip, God make you holy." And the old slave always said in a low voice: "Felipillo—saint?... when the fig tree grows green!"