So: who is going to condemn? As with the story in John 8.1–11 of Jesus and the men taken in hypocrisy (it’s normally called ‘the woman taken in adultery’ but you see the point), Jesus asks the woman, ‘Has nobody condemned you?’ ‘Nobody,’ she replies in bemused astonishment. Jesus has stood in the way – and it’s no accident that John 8 ends with people picking up stones to throw at Jesus instead.
