He may know, but He still wants you to ask.
Jas 4:2; You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.
Luke 11:13; "If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?"
1Jn 3:22; and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.
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The title of the thread is named wrong in my opinion.
It wasn't that Jesus "couldn't" condemn the woman. He simply chose not to. There were plenty of other people (mostly Pharisees) that Jesus did condemn.
Hi thanks for the reply. It is a interesting parable . My two cents
Yes, He gives us a desire to ask knowing what we need beforehand In that way we are his masterpiece and not of our own selves . .In that way as one of the better things that accompany salvation is a promise (hebrews 6) he will not forget the good works we can perform in the power of his name yoked with him .
Looking at the background of the occasion. In John 8 the unbelieving faithless Jew (no faith as it is written in the law and prophets ) They were looking for a fleshly God as a government of men .They were testing the Son of man as on other occasions making him into a circus seal saying, mocking God, Do a work , work a miracle then when we see we will believe.
To the law
John 4:48 and its testimony
John 6:30 we have the one witness of God .Two working as one ..is the one witness of God.
John 4:4Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see
signs and wonders, ye will not
believe.
John 6:30 They said therefore unto him, What
sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and
believe thee? what dost thou work
In chapter 8of John after the parable is given the law of two working as one is established
John 8: 15-18 Ye judge after the flesh;
I judge no
man. And yet if I judge,
my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but
I and the
Father that sent
me
It is also written in your law, that the testimony of
two men is true.(1)
I am one that bear witness of myself, and(2) the
Father that sent me beareth witness of
me.
I would call it the parable of the "Deceitful Heart "
Jesus, cannot condemn as the Son of man he has no power to rebuke. All judgement or power is given to the father not seen, not to the earthen vessel the Son of man , Jesus the first born . (Good recipe to take the log out of ones eye )
It is why I believe he wrote the judgement of the father working with him. . words in the dust or sometimes called the heart of the earth from where the blood of saints cries out , the result of sufferings on earth with a hope of anew incorruptible body . From dust we come to dust we return. In that way the heavens and earth( dust)can pass away but not the word of God
Writing twice two represent the witness of God .
Note. . (parentheses) my added comment
John 8:1-9 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, (Call noman on earth good 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. (ignoring their false accusations) So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, (as a prophet declaring the word of God)
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.And they which
heard it, (The interpretation of the parable )being convicted by
their own conscience, (not convicted by the parable or word of God ) went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
I would believe the older venerated elders had more knowledge of rebukes like that of Ezekiel 17 as a companion parable .Names writen in the dust subject to a gust of wind .
Ezekiah 17:9-13 The
heart is deceitful above all things, and
desperately wicked: who can know it? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool. A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary. O Lord, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and
they that depart from me shall be
written in the
earth, because
they have
forsaken the
Lord, the fountain of
living waters.
They will not be
found in the
lambs book of
life
They that did depart the older to the younger testified their names were written and gone with a gust of wind.
