Where Are Your Accusers

I was the woman caught in adultery

Sentenced, judged and condemned…

My accusers dragged me through the streets

Then threw me before Him~ the rabbi from Jerusalem!

Ashamed, ridiculed, I lay shattered at his feet

I dare not look at him, broken, I began to weep!

“This woman was caught in the very act of adultery,

What say you Rabbi she’s filthy and weak.”

Jesus bends down and begins writing in the dirt…

Then, he begins to speak~

I could not believe what I was hearing His words so gentle and meek

Powerful, defying these pious judgmental priests~~

Jesus knew their hearts were deceitful, wanting only to set a trap to capture him!

The Rabbi was no fool, when he spoke, I held my breath,

Then I breathed again as he spoke to them~

“Let he who is without sin throw the first stone…”

I was shocked, I thought surely, I’d die this day, but one, by one, they dropped their stones and slowly walked away~

Trembling and shaken I knelt before Him~

“Woman, where are your accusers?”

“Nowhere my Lord!”

“Neither do I condemn you, go, and sin no more!”

Tears of joy spilled from my eyes; I had been redeemed; I will not die…

My life forever changed!

New name, I now proclaim, “I’m a daughter of the King!!”

~Marla Shaw O’Neill August 5, 2022

John 8:3-11

King James Version

³ And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,

⁴ They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.

⁵ Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?

⁶ This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.

⁷ So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

⁸ And again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.

⁹ And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

¹⁰ When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?

¹¹ She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.