Restoring the one who has hit rock bottom
Everybody knew.
The woman had been married five times. To add to her scandalous reputation, the man she was now living with wasn’t her husband. Her neighbors wanted nothing to do with her – except as a source of delicious gossip.
Shame reigned in the woman’s heart. Judgment reigned in the hearts of her neighbors. Then…Jesus entered the scene.
John 4:7-42 tells us the same crowd that had previously condemned the woman’s way of life later thanked her for telling them about Jesu