And yet he met the standard he declared. You know that. I know that. He knew that. And no stone flew.
No, He didn't meet that standard declared in the Law He gave. And you don't seem to understand that. No matter how many times it is explained.
You could try. Does it answer my concerns voice in particular? Is what follows you taking a shot at that?
The man who commits adultery with
another man’s wife,
he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress, shall surely be put to death.
-Leviticus 20:10
One witness shall not rise against a man concerning any iniquity or any sin that he commits; by the mouth of two or three witnesses the matter shall be established.
-Deuteronomy 19:15
If a matter arises which is too hard for you to judge, between degrees of guilt for bloodshed, between one judgment or another, or between one punishment or another, matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the Lord your God chooses. And you shall come to the priests, the Levites, and to the judge
there in those days, and inquire
of them; they shall pronounce upon you the sentence of judgment.
-Deuteronomy 17:8-9
- They did not bring the man.
- They had no reason to bring her to Jesus n the first place as He was neither priest [Levite] nor judge. Nor was it too hard for them to judge.
- The place they brought her was not the place appointed by God.
We have no reason to doubt this wasn't in fact accomplished, that those bringing the woman weren't prepared to meet it. Christ certainly doesn't say, "Who are the witnesses and what are their number?"
Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?”
This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with
His finger, as though He did not hear.
So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, [Jesus]“He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.”[/Jesus] And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground.
Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, [Jesus]“Woman,
where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?”[/Jesus]
She said,
“No one, Lord.”
And Jesus said to her, [Jesus]“Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.”[/Jesus]
-John 8:3-11
He asked where the accusers [witnesses] were. There were none when He asked, and He certainly was not a witness to the crime.
Also, if they were following the law then why were they trying to be crafty so they "might have something of which to accuse Him?"
And what he does say, to the woman, is a pretty clear indictment. "Go and sin no more." He knows she's guilty. Are you suggesting Christ was playing lawyer in a way that would invite scorn among most?
Knowing she was guilty and being a witness to the crime are two different things.
That would make it a pointless and peculiar bit of a law, unless you think public copulation was a real problem.
God's commands on capital crimes always stipulated there must be two or three witnesses; that people must be caught in the act in order to punished.
