Respect and Obedience (5)

"And they . . . went out one by one, beginning at the eldest even unto the last," John 8:9. The setting of these words is well known to all of us. Jesus had been troubled by a group of self-righteous Pharisees who tried to make Him speak contrary to Moses and presented to Him a woman who had been caught in the sin of adultery. Jesus answered them in a way which they did not expect. He told them that the one among them who was himself without sin should cast the first stone. "And they . . ....