# You Without Sin Cast the First Stone - The Gospels

An episode of [Kids Bible in a Year with Julia Jeffress Sadler](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1696638708), 1 Mar 2024, 13 min.

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Join Julia Jeffress Sadler as she takes us on an incredible adventure in Episode 165. Jesus visited a big festival where people couldn't decide if He was really good or not, but He amazed everyone with His smart teaching. Then, when some leaders tried to trick Jesus with a tough question about a woman who made a mistake, Jesus answered so wisely that everyone was speechless, and He told the woman she was forgiven. Jesus showed everyone that being kind and forgiving is super important. Sign up to receive Kids Bible in a Year devotionals in your inbox every weekday: https://www.kidsbibleinayear.com/ Get ready to experience the Bible designed specifically for children with the official KidsBibleinaYear.com podcast, led by Julia Jeffress Sadler. This captivating audio series presents the age-old wisdom of the Bible in an engaging format that will captivate your kids. Each episode Julia translates biblical teachings into real-life applications, making Bible comprehension a breeze for young minds. And if you want more Christian resources and content, you can download the Pray.com app. Pray.com is the digital destination for faith, offering over 5,000 daily prayers, meditations, bedtime Bible stories, and cinematic stories inspired by the Bible. For more resources on how to live a successful Christian life, visit Julia Jeffress Sadler's website at https://ptv.org/julia/. This episode is sponsored by Little Passports. Visit LittlePassports.com/blessed and use promo code BLESSED to receive 20% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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[0:00] Speaker 1: Now on the last and greatest day of the feast,
[0:03] Speaker 1: Jesus stood and cried out, If anyone is thirsty, let
[0:07] Speaker 1: him come to me and drink. He who believes in me,
[0:11] Speaker 1: as the scripture has said, from within him will flow
[0:15] Speaker 1: rivers of living water. John 7, 37 and 38. Dear God,
[0:21] Speaker 1: we thank you for today being a father who forgives.
[0:25] Speaker 1: Just like this woman who was caught sinning, we can
[0:28] Speaker 1: find grace, love, and forgiveness in you. We can find
[0:32] Speaker 1: the strength to live a life of purity as we
[0:35] Speaker 1: trust and obey you. Thank you for the living water
[0:39] Speaker 1: you give that never, ever runs out. In Jesus' name, amen.
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[1:19] Speaker 3: You without sin cast the first stone in our last story.
[1:25] Speaker 3: Jesus taught how he is the true bread of life.
[1:30] Speaker 3: In this story, Jesus will frustrate the religious leaders as
[1:34] Speaker 3: he continues to preach and call people to obedience. He
[1:39] Speaker 3: will also forgive the woman who is caught in adultery,
[1:44] Speaker 3: as inspired by the Gospels.
[1:50] Speaker 1: Hi, it's Julianne Thompson, guest hosting for Julia Jeffress Sadler.
[1:54] Speaker 1: Welcome back for another story from the Kids Bible in
[1:57] Speaker 1: a Year podcast. Things are getting tense in Jerusalem, and
[2:02] Speaker 1: the Jewish leaders are not happy. Today, we'll hear Jesus
[2:06] Speaker 1: offer us what he calls living water, and we'll meet
[2:10] Speaker 1: a woman who, thanks to Jesus, will never be the same.
[2:15] Speaker 1: Let's listen in.
[2:18] Speaker 3: Jesus came to Galilee but had to be very careful
[2:22] Speaker 3: because some religious leaders wanted to kill him. But it
[2:26] Speaker 3: was around the time for the Jewish festival of tabernacles.
[2:30] Speaker 3: His brothers said, Go to Judea and get away from
[2:34] Speaker 3: Galilee so your disciples can see your miracles. You shouldn't
[2:39] Speaker 3: keep your miracles in private and hide it from others.
[2:43] Speaker 3: You need to show yourself off to other people. At
[2:47] Speaker 3: that time, His brothers did not truly believe in who
[2:51] Speaker 3: he was. Jesus told them, It is not yet my time.
[2:57] Speaker 3: The world hates me because they think that what I
[2:59] Speaker 3: am doing is evil. His brothers warned him not to
[3:03] Speaker 3: stay in Galilee, but he went ahead and left for
[3:06] Speaker 3: the festival after his brothers had already headed there. People
[3:11] Speaker 3: at the festival were looking all over for Jesus. Some
[3:15] Speaker 3: people said, He is a good man. But others said, No,
[3:20] Speaker 3: he lies and tricks people. During the festival, Jesus went
[3:25] Speaker 3: to the temple and started to teach. The people were
[3:29] Speaker 3: amazed at his teaching and wondered how he had all
[3:32] Speaker 3: this knowledge. The crowd realized that this is the man
[3:37] Speaker 3: the religious leaders were trying to kill. Some sent for
[3:41] Speaker 3: the religious leaders, and then the guards came looking for him.
[3:45] Speaker 3: Jesus spoke to the people and said, I am only
[3:49] Speaker 3: here with you for a small amount of time. Then
[3:52] Speaker 3: I am going back to the one who sent me here.
[3:57] Speaker 3: You will try to look for me, but you will
[3:59] Speaker 3: not be able to see me. You will not be
[4:03] Speaker 3: able to come to where I am. People were confused
[4:07] Speaker 3: by what Jesus had said. They asked, where is he
[4:11] Speaker 3: going and why will we not be able to see him?
[4:15] Speaker 3: Why will we not be able to come? Not even
[4:18] Speaker 3: the guards were able to arrest him because they were
[4:22] Speaker 3: listening to his teachings. On the last day of the festival,
[4:26] Speaker 3: Jesus said, People said after this, Others said, No, he
[4:30] Speaker 3: is the Messiah. When the guards returned to the religious leaders,
[4:50] Speaker 3: they were asked, Why did you not bring him? They replied,
[4:55] Speaker 3: This man speaks unlike any other man. Early the next day,
[5:01] Speaker 3: the religious leaders brought a woman who was in sin
[5:04] Speaker 3: to Jesus. They wanted to trap him, and so they
[5:08] Speaker 3: said to him, Teacher, this woman was caught sinning. The
[5:13] Speaker 3: law of Moses says that we are to stone her.
[5:17] Speaker 3: What do you think we should do? Jesus did not answer,
[5:22] Speaker 3: but he bent down and wrote on the ground with
[5:25] Speaker 3: his finger. The religious leaders kept asking questions until Jesus
[5:29] Speaker 3: finally answered. He said, You without sin can cast the
[5:35] Speaker 3: first stone. One by one, all the leaders dropped their
[5:41] Speaker 3: stones and left, from the oldest to the youngest. Jesus
[5:46] Speaker 3: said to the woman, Woman, has no one condemned you?
[5:52] Speaker 3: She answered, No. He then said, I do not condemn you.
[5:58] Speaker 3: Go and live a life free of sin.
[6:08] Speaker 2: What a story!
[6:11] Speaker 1: Can't you just hear those stones dropping on the ground?
[6:15] Speaker 1: There's a lot to talk about today. As we open,
[6:18] Speaker 1: things are busy and crowded in Jerusalem because all the
[6:23] Speaker 1: Jews are coming into town for a big party. It
[6:27] Speaker 1: was called the Feast of the Booths, a festival they
[6:30] Speaker 1: celebrated every year to remember how God provided for them
[6:34] Speaker 1: during their 40 years in the wilderness. At this festival,
[6:40] Speaker 1: the Jews would stay in temporary shelters or booths for
[6:43] Speaker 1: the week bringing their offerings and sacrifices to the temple.
[6:48] Speaker 1: But that wasn't all that was happening. Things were stirring
[6:52] Speaker 1: because many Jewish leaders were looking for Jesus and wanted
[6:57] Speaker 1: to kill him. They didn't like all this talk about
[7:00] Speaker 1: being a king or godson or whatever else they had heard.
[7:04] Speaker 1: They were angry, jealous, and didn't believe a word he said.
[7:10] Speaker 1: The Bible tells us here that even the brothers of
[7:14] Speaker 1: Jesus did not believe in him at this point. His
[7:17] Speaker 1: own brothers. How lonely Jesus must have felt. Jesus went
[7:23] Speaker 1: to the temple as this festival began and started teaching
[7:27] Speaker 1: the people. Many of them did believe in him. But
[7:31] Speaker 1: they just couldn't understand exactly what he was saying. Why
[7:35] Speaker 1: is he going to go away? And why can't we come?
[7:38] Speaker 1: The Bible says that even the guards that were sent
[7:41] Speaker 1: to arrest him were so amazed by his teaching. Jesus
[7:45] Speaker 1: told the people that they could come to him and
[7:48] Speaker 1: drink and that if they believed in him, there would
[7:51] Speaker 1: be a river of water flowing through them that never stopped. Now,
[7:57] Speaker 1: just like the bread we talked about last time, this
[8:00] Speaker 1: was not actual water. It was life. Jesus was saying,
[8:04] Speaker 1: I can give you this amazing joy and purpose. that
[8:07] Speaker 1: will last forever, and all you have to do is
[8:11] Speaker 1: come to me and ask for it. It seemed too
[8:15] Speaker 1: good to be true, but it wasn't. Then we heard
[8:19] Speaker 1: about the Pharisees interrupting Jesus' teaching to bring a woman
[8:23] Speaker 1: to him. This woman had been doing things that were
[8:27] Speaker 1: very wrong, and everyone knew it. She had a bad
[8:31] Speaker 1: reputation and was not living the way God says to live.
[8:36] Speaker 1: The leaders told Jesus that according to Jewish law, they
[8:40] Speaker 1: were allowed to throw stones at her for what she did.
[8:45] Speaker 1: If Jesus said, okay, you can, they would be breaking
[8:49] Speaker 1: the Roman law and the Romans were the ones in charge.
[8:53] Speaker 1: But if Jesus said not to stone her, he wouldn't
[8:56] Speaker 1: be following the law of Moses, the law of the Jews.
[9:01] Speaker 1: Either way, they thought this was their chance to trick
[9:05] Speaker 1: them and arrest him, getting rid of him for good.
[9:09] Speaker 1: And not to mention, they were acting very self-righteous. That
[9:14] Speaker 1: means they acted like they were perfect and so much
[9:17] Speaker 1: better than this woman. It's as if she deserved all
[9:21] Speaker 1: the punishment in the world and they deserve to be rewarded.
[9:26] Speaker 1: By the way, we can act self-righteous sometimes too. When
[9:30] Speaker 1: we focus too much on someone else's sin instead of
[9:33] Speaker 1: the things that we are doing... We act just like
[9:36] Speaker 1: the Pharisees. Jesus wants us to look inside our own
[9:41] Speaker 1: hearts and worry about ourselves much more than we can
[9:44] Speaker 1: worry about what others are doing wrong. All right, so
[9:48] Speaker 1: how did Jesus respond? If we've learned anything from these stories,
[9:53] Speaker 1: it's that Jesus has his own special way of doing
[9:57] Speaker 1: things that sometimes surprise us. Instead of answering these leaders,
[10:03] Speaker 1: Jesus bent down and wrote something on the ground with
[10:06] Speaker 1: his finger. We're not even sure what Jesus wrote, but
[10:10] Speaker 1: John does tell us what he said. Okay, well, whichever
[10:14] Speaker 1: one of you never sins and is perfect, go ahead
[10:17] Speaker 1: and throw the first stone at her. Silence. They knew
[10:22] Speaker 1: they messed up this time. And as hard as they tried,
[10:26] Speaker 1: they weren't perfect. They couldn't keep all those laws all
[10:31] Speaker 1: the time. So they dropped their stones and walked away.
[10:36] Speaker 1: The last scene in this story is so special and powerful.
[10:40] Speaker 1: It's just Jesus and the woman left standing there. She
[10:44] Speaker 1: was probably so embarrassed and ashamed. And yet he looked
[10:48] Speaker 1: right into her eyes. After they talk about how all
[10:51] Speaker 1: the Pharisees left, he says, I don't condemn you either.
[10:56] Speaker 1: Go and sin no more. What did Jesus mean by that?
[11:01] Speaker 1: To condemn someone means to stay in front of everyone?
[11:04] Speaker 1: You're very wrong and bad and you deserve to be punished?
[11:08] Speaker 1: But even though Jesus said he was not going to
[11:11] Speaker 1: condemn her, we can't forget the last part of this statement.
[11:15] Speaker 1: He said that even though she was forgiven and loved
[11:18] Speaker 1: by him, she needed to stop doing wrong and instead
[11:22] Speaker 1: live her life in a way that was right. He
[11:25] Speaker 1: wanted her to stop sinning and trust in him. That's
[11:29] Speaker 1: the same thing he wants for us. Thank you for
[11:32] Speaker 1: listening to today's story. Next time Jesus is going to
[11:36] Speaker 1: put some mud in someone's eyes... but it's for a
[11:39] Speaker 1: good reason.
[11:40] Speaker 3: You'll see.
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