Women Empowerment by Jesus

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The whole of humanity fell under the curse the moment Eve bit the apple in the Eden Garden. Between Adam and Eve, the very first curse fell upon Eve.

“I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you” Genesis 3:16.

Through the ages women bore the brunt of this curse. With pain she gave birth to her children. Motherhood, her greatest desire, came at a huge price. Most of her life, most of women lived subservient to men. Some of them even surrendered to the dismal profession of pleasing men through prostitution for a living against her own wishes. A woman chooses prostitution as a profession only when she has no other choice for a living.

Will this be the condition of women forever? No not all. So, when did things begin to change?

Once Jews brought a woman caught in adultery before Jesus. Prostitution as a profession suffered the worst of human atrocities in the days of Jesus as the very men who exploited her wanted to stone her to death misquoting the Law of Moses which says, “If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death” (Leviticus 20:10). Is there a condition worse than this for a human being?

But what did Jesus do here?

He declared that only those who had not sinned may stone her (John 8:7). Expectedly there was none who qualified to stone her. Even those who exploited her slipped away with a deep sense of guilt and shame.

When everyone left the spot, Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they?” Jesus proved to her that she is set free from the humiliation of the world forever. Has none condemned you? (John 8:10), Jesus asked her tenderly. No one Lord, she replied holding her head high and addressing him as the Lord of her life.  “Nor do I condemn you, go and now on sin no more” (John 8:11). Jesus made a historic proclamation which reversed the curse from Genesis on women forever.

What a grand proclamation!! Women are free from condemnation that held them in curse forever. She has been restored to her Edenic status in God’s Kingdom. Now she can live in full freedom and victory through faith in Jesus for there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1).

 

Prakash T John

#Jesus and the woman caught in adultery

 

Comments

  1. truthteller12 August 2024 at 21:37

    Though this is a commendable attempt to show that this was a moment when Jesus redeemed all women from the "curse" which fell on them from the Fall, I'm afraid that it suffers from a flawed understanding of salvation. Jesus' death on the cross is what saved from the curse. This story is meant to highlight the hypocrisy involved in condemning a women for adultery, something that can only happen when man and women sin together!

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