All is fair in love and law – Day 11

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JOHANNE 8

₁Jesu yena a ya Thabeng ya Mehlwaare. ₂Kameso a boela a fihla ka Tempeleng. Setjhaba sohle sa tla ho yena, mme a dula, a se ruta. ₃Jwale Ditsebi tsa Molao le Bafarisi ba tlisa mosadi ya tshwerweng ka bofebe, ba mo emisa kapele ho bona, ₄ba re ho Jesu: “Moruti, mosadi enwa o tshwerwe a ntse a feba. ₅Molaong Moshe o laetse hore ba jwalo re ba tlepetse ka majwe; wena o reng?” ₆Ba ile ba rialo ka ho mo leka, hore ba be le seo ba ka mo qosang ka sona.

Empa Jesu a inama, a ngola fatshe ka monwana. ₇Ha ba ntse ba phehelletse ho mmotsa, a inamoloha, a re ho bona: “Ya se nang sebe ho lona, a mmetse pele ka lejwe!” ₈A inama hape, a ngola fatshe.

₉Ha ba utlwa, ba tswa ka bonngwe ho qala ka ba baholo, mme ba mo siya a le mong, mosadi a ntse a le moo. ₁₀Yare ha Jesu a inamoloha, a re ho yena: “Mosadi, ba kae? Ha ho ya o tswileng?”

₁₁A re: “Ha a yo, Morena.”

Jesu a re: “Le nna ha ke o tswe; eya, mme ho tloha jwale o se ke wa hlola o etsa sebe.”

Jesu ke lesedi la lefatshe

₁₂Jesu a boela a bua le bona, a re: “Ke nna lesedi la lefatshe; ya ntatelang ha a ka ke a tsamaya lefifing, empa o tla ba le lesedi la bophelo.”

JOHANNE 8:1-12SSO89SOBula ka mmadi wa Bibele

1. While Jesus was teaching those who gathered around him in the temple precincts, some Pharisees and Scribes brought to him a woman “caught in the act of adultery”. Appealing to the Law of Moses that requires that she be stoned, they ask Jesus to judge her case. But Jesus bends down to write on the ground with his finger. When they continue to press him for an answer (8:7), Jesus stands up and addresses the Pharisees and Scribes. “If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her” (8:7).
Jesus did not argue against the law commanded by Moses but his response to the group of men pointed to the blind spot in their own vulnerability and guilt. This reminds us that the defenders of the law are not always the keepers of the law.
(a) Can you imagine the scene of this crime? One person caught in the act of adultery!
(b) Do you see a connection between the men’s reference to the Law of Moses and
Jesus’ act of writing?
(c) Do you wonder what Jesus was writing on the ground? What do you think it might have been, or whom it might have been about?
(d) What do you notice about Jesus’ posture? Have you had an experience where body language speaks louder than words?
(e) What new insights have emerged for you from engagement with this text?

2. Often the focus of John 8 is on the Pharisees as the ‘bad boys’ because they were using the question [about the law] to trap Jesus (8:6). The fact that the men were using the woman for their own devious purpose is seldom recognised. Is our blind spot perhaps because we condemn the woman based on Jesus’ last words to her?

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All is fair in love and law – Day 11

Se(di)ngolwa (t)sa Bibele

JOHANNE 8

Jesu ke lesedi la lefatshe