Today’s Gospel is the familiar story of Jesus and the woman caught in adultery. It is a passage I have always found powerful and even more so ever since I played that woman in the Trial of Christ (something I wrote about here).
Here is one video version of the scene:
“Neither do I condemn you,” says Jesus to the woman. Notice Jesus does not say he condones her acts. Quite the opposite; “Go, and sin no more,” he tells her, acknowledges the wrongfulness of her prior way of life.
But while Jesus disapproves of her sin, he does not condemn her, he does not pronounce her as deserving the ultimate punishment the Pharisees were willing to impose on her.
Who do we condemn? Who do we write off? And, in so doing, do we forget our own failings?
Creo en Dios! 