When they heard this, they left one by one, starting with the older men.

Only he was left, with the woman in the center. When Jesus stood up, he said to her, 

"Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"

"No one, Lord,"

she answered.

John 8:9-11 CSB

The Pharisees couldn't stay with the moral purity of Jesus words to them.

They knew there was sin in their hearts and they were not without sin from their own efforts.

Their own attempts to perfectly keep and enforce the law were not enough 

And their heart motivation had been exposed. 

And Jesus stood up facing this person who moments before was facing death, in the middle of the crowd, there must've been complete silence, and Jesus almost seems surprised...the people accusing you have gone...(& the people trying to trap me too).

The accused.

The saviour.

Standing face to face.

One day that will be our experience too, as we will stand face to face with Jesus. Unlike this person, we'll see his scars, and know that his righteousness is ours, that we have life because he gave up his. 

In that moment the only one who was without sin, the only one who could throw a stone at her, didn't.

#grace