Secondly, that among the relatively small number of scholars who defend the authenticity of this passage, most are conservatives. Firstly, there is almost no doubt that this passage is a later addition, written by another author. Now my friend Karl Hand, biblical scholar extraordinaire, assures me of two things. Go your way, and from now on do not sin again. 10Jesus straightened up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” 11She said, “No one, sir.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. 9When they heard it, they went away, one by one, beginning with the elders and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. 7When 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.” 8And once again he bent down and wrote on the ground. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. Now what do you say?” 6They said this to test him, so that they might have some charge to bring against him. 5Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. 3The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery and making her stand before all of them, 4they said to him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. All the people came to him and he sat down and began to teach them. 2Early in the morning he came again to the temple. You may remember it as the story with the line: “let he who is without sin cast the first stone”. One of the most famous passages in the New Testament is the story of the woman taken in adultery. We’ll get to the Ballad of Reading Gaol soon as promised in the title, but before we do I want to take a detour through the Gospel of John. I chose the first option, although I fall short constantly, and trying to explain how that commitment works on the level of feeling- to show how certain ideas are emotionally and aesthetically compossible- is what led me to write this essay. When I was young, a number of horrific experiences convinced me that I could either choose to be wholly on the side of humanity- all of humanity- or a misanthrope. They think a murderer’s heart would taintĪnd the red rose would but blow more red,

The ballad of reading jail