Teaching in the temple. That’s all Jesus was doing. That’s what He was supposed to be doing. He wasn’t causing trouble, wasn’t hurting anyone, simply teaching the holy truths of God’s precepts. The scribes and Pharisees disrupted the calm scene that day in the Court of Women by dragging before Jesus a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. These hypocritical law enforcers informed Jesus that her penalty by Mosaic law was that she be stoned to death. Jesus already knew the law. He knew their purpose in involving Him in this case. It wasn’t like they needed Jesus’ permission to have her stoned. Jesus was a common Rabbi (teacher). They made up the Sanhedrin, the governing institution of the Jews. It wasn’t like they cared about her. She was probably young. The way the law was stated. "If there is a girl who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies with her, then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city and you shall stone them to death; the girl, because she did not cry out in the city, and the man, because he has violated his neighbor's wife. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.” Deuteronomy 22:23-24. Girls married young in the first century. She was likely a teenager. She was caught committing adultery. It is doubtful she was permitted an opportunity to properly clothe herself before being dragged in front of this crowd. The Pharisees didn’t care about her but Jesus did and with one statement He secured her freedom. “He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.” John 8:7. That was all it took. Thud. Thud. One by one the stones fell to the ground as they turned and walked away. We are slow to grant mercy to others thinking they don’t deserve it. What about you? Can you cast the first stone?