[rusty millet]

One of the things people miss about the stone-throwing parable is that the people standing around holding the stones were preachers involved in a plot to kill an innocent man.

Not to nitpick, but if you are going to debate the meaning of scripture, you might want to have a firmer grasp on what the bible actually says.

[Mr. Silverback]

Not to nitpick, but if you are going to debate the meaning of scripture, you might want to have a firmer grasp on what the bible actually says.

Here is the text to which I referred:

John 8

¹But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. ²At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. ³The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group ⁴and said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. ⁵In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?" ⁶They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.
⁷But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." ⁸Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
⁹At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. ¹⁰Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
¹¹"No one, sir," she said.
"Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."

I don't see anything in there that conflicts with what I wrote.