Hi GAMErs,
Today’s passage is John 8:1-11. We’ll also take up John 7:53 as part of it. Let’s go!
John 7:53-8:1 (NIV)
53 Then each went to his own home.
1 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
On 7:53-8:1: Why did Jesus go to the Mount of Olives? To pray. See, for example, Luke 22:39-41. This was an important secret to Jesus’ success: Jesus prioritized time praying to the Father. He would go out of his way to do so, and in so doing he experienced a peace, a power and a wisdom that the world could not give. As we like to say at Thrive, much prayer, much power. Little prayer, little power. No prayer, no power. Be a person of prayer and you will experience God’s power.
John 8:2-6a (NIV)
2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them.
3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group
4 and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.
5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?”
6 They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him…