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As COVID lockdown restrictions begin to ease, I have participated in the past week in two in-person social events.
8:39 They answered him, “Abraham is our father.”
8:31 Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples; 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
8:27 They did not understand that he was speaking to them about the Father.
8: 21 Again Jesus said to them, “I am going away, and you will search for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”
In his third novel Little Man, What Now? published in Germany in 1932, Hans Fallada tells the story of a impoverished young couple living in depression-era Berlin in the early 1930s.
8:15 You judge by human standards; I judge no one.
8:12 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.”
8:7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8 And once again he bent down and wrote on the ground.
The earliest texts, the earliest translations and the earliest church fathers all lack any reference to the story of the woman caught in adultery. Two hundred and sixty-seven ancient Greek manuscripts of the New Testament make no mention of the story of the woman caught in adultery. However, it is found in 1,495 manuscripts; none of these are the earliest or most reliable manuscript. Hence, despite its power and its deep place in ancient Christian tradition, it has been viewed with some suspicion.
In A Spacious Place 