why didn't jesus cast the first stone?

Question

jesus says, "let he who is without sin cast the first stone." yet he does nothing. why?

Answer 1

Because it made for a better story.

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Jesus steps in front of the poor woman and says, "Let those among you who have not sinned cast the first stone!". Suddenly, a rock flies out from in back of the crowd and hits the poor woman on the forehead. Jesus says, "Mom! Stay out of this. I'm trying to make a point here!"

Answer 2

Good question J.C. Jesus is able to convict people without a long speech of condemnation. If He had given a speech of condemnation to all the hypocritical judges of that woman, they would have just gotten mad at Him and maybe stoned Him as well.
Jesus is the only one who can speak to the heart in a powerful yet gentle way.
Jesus was and is the friend of the outcasts of society. Anyone who wants to come to Him and have his life cleaned up and healed can. Jesus didn't come to cast stones, but to heal wounded hearts and lives.

Here is what the religious establishment said about Jesus:
‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and "sinners."

Answer 3

He became responding for the Jewish leaders, did no longer you examine the story? The Jewish leaders have been the only that have been going to stone an adulteress and that they've been asking Jesus concerning the regulation so as to stump him.. Technically, i do no longer think of Jesus could have been accepted do the stoning, plus they theory he became a sinner like every physique else.

Answer 4

If Jesus wanted to teach humanity a lesson in compassion, he wasn't very successful. Throughout history humans have judged, lynched, tortured and cast more than stones at each others. A great number of them were Christians who preferred to follow the other messages that Jesus brought to mankind:

- "Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household."

With this last message, Jesus had great success. Many people follow it literally to this day.

Answer 5

The Jews who had brought her forward for judgment were doing so in violation of the commandment. They said and this is the quote "she was caught in the very act".

The Torah says that when you find to people committing adultery you bring both the man and the woman before the elders for judgment.

Where was the man? This was an illegal trial and it was as the text suggests used to entrap Yahshua. No one can can be executed without the testimony of two or three witnesses and there were none left because Yahshua had shamed them most likely by writing down in the dirt either a. their sins most likely including the very act they were condemning the woman of or b. the actual law that they were ignoring ... Both the man and the woman were to be brought forward.

Your confusion is because you don't really understand the law. You only think you do. You misquote it to demean it. You only demean yourself by posting an ignorant question.

Answer 6

Ever thought that that's not what Jesus wanted the people to take from that incident?

According to the old law, you had to have a certain number of eye witnesses to be guilty and the man had to be stoned as well. I don't think either of these conditions were met, so maybe this is what Jesus wanted to point out-selective application of law is wrong. This is one of many lessons from this, though. It could also show the law's purpose expiring as they get ready for Jesus' death and the new covenant.

Not to say she wasn't guilty. Jesus knew her heart, forgave her and told her not to sin anymore.

Answer 7

Because that would have been hypocritical according to his teachings. Just change the word stone to judgement and it is better understood. "Let he who is without sin cast the first judgement. None of us are without sin and therefore have no right to judge anyone else. Jesus taught acceptance and forgiveness.

Answer 8

That is a good question,

Jesus was arguing with our right to execute the woman. Once all the men had dropped their stones Jesus confronted the woman and asked her if any of the men were still there to condemn her. When she answered "No man, Lord", Jesus told her that neither did He - He forgave her of her sin. He did not excuse the sin of adultery/prostitution, he forgave her of it. He even reminded her of the sin of adultery/prostitution by telling her "Go and sin no more."

Answer 9

In Jewish law the person who is wronged must cast the first stone. So if Jesus through the first stone He would have Sinned. Jesus was and is the only sinless person.

Answer 10

Jesus said in Luke 5:32 - I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance."
Jesus had mercy on her and forgave her her sin and she repented and went away from that sin. He told her to "God and sin no more" He wanted to give her a chance at life and to show her love. He even was able to show that everyone else there had sins also that no one was able to stone her. They realized they all had sin in their life too.