Here is the latest in my series, Stories and Parables of Jesus. The message in this story is particularly poignant in that we often tend to judge others without taking an honest look at our own sins. It's also interesting that a significant detail is glaring by its omission, especially since she was allegedly caught "in the very act!" Where is the guilty man? Could it be that he is one of the accusers? The message of this story seems writ large: Be careful how you judge others, because that's how you/ll be judged in the end.

And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him
a woman taken in adultery;
and when they had set her in the midst,
They say unto him,
Master, this woman was taken in adultery,
in the very act.
Now Moses in the law commanded us,
that such should be stoned:
but what sayest thou?
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.
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.
And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
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.
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?
She said, No man, Lord.
And Jesus said unto her,
Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

John chapter eight, verses three through eleven.