I've considered this event. It seems the accusers were obeying the Mosaic Law when bringing the woman to justice. Why did Jesus not fulfil this commandment? Was it because His presence on Earth was issuing in a new legal era?
Or something else?
yeah he’s the mediator of the New Testament they were trying to follow Moses law but it’s for this
“Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.”
Romans 3:19-20 KJV
we would t know what adultery is or that it’s sin if the law hadn’t said “ Thou shalt not commit adultery , anyone who commits adultery must surely be put to death “
the law is to teach us what sin is nd that it is a death sentance .
Jesus didn’t come to do that he came to save those who had been found sinners by the knowledge of sin the law is meant to do that but the gospel is this
“and said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are witnesses of these things.”
Luke 24:46-48
the law makes us aware of sin and it’s consequence the gospel is for calling us to repentance and remission of sins
they are two parts of one plan to redeem
Mankind. If the law didn’t teach sin and it’s consequence no one could ever repent and have thier sins remitted because we would be ignorant of good and evil
what is sin ? That would be our understanding if God hadn’t given the law first and what is repentance from sin ? If we don’t know what it is how can we repent ?
we have to be made aware of sin before we can acknowledge our guilt , come to repentance and have our sins remitted
there’s two testaments Jesus is giving the new they were trying to enforce the old they were indeed trying to obey Moses
“thou shalt not commit adultery is the commandment “
a death sentance is the reply of breaking it they couldn’t be saved once they committed sin they had to be killed by the others
“And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and
the adulteress shall surely be put to death.”
Leviticus 20:10 KJV
if you look closer you find that Jesus is explaining why Moses law is different
Moses commanded them that if they took a wife d then we’re unhappy with the wife to write a bill of divorce and send her away then she could remarry another person Jesus revoked this also and says why
“And he answered and said unto them,
What did Moses command you? And they said,
Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.
And Jesus answered and said unto them,
For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
But
from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; and they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
And he saith unto them,
Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. And if a woman shall put away her husband, and
be married to another, she committeth adultery.”
Mark 10:3-9, 11-12
that is not what Moses taught it’s contrary. The gospel is a New Testament the old is to point to sin and hold us guilty to a death sentance and the gospel is to come and save us turning our ears to God and his word rather than this law which cannot save us but was for them who will not repent having the knowledge of sin but not having the knowledge of the righteousness of Christ found only in the gospel
“knowing this, that
the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for
murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for
manslayers, for
whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for
menstealers, for
liars, for
perjured persons, and if there be
any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;”
1 Timothy 1:9-10
we have to be born again by accepting the new beginning found in the gospel and the mediation of Jesus Christ the Lord