Show a O S SI I i 06 Z o 0 v F sf Mr er 4 I II I a d f r s f tA t ta to a a e spa r p ai of the Saviours Saviour's Pardon f ff 1 i iv ir Story isle f iJ J v r t teeb eeb t P yie r r ry y t ti ta tr Sinner in the Temple Omitted From Latest Lt a r t i e a g I t i ia iM M Version f the New Testament a 1 i f P J Jt t aw Mme ti 7 Hf A t tt t tY r 1 ba l d s s cF r 4 Ra ra 4 I 1 I t ts s m t t r ra a y A i a A i II i 1 t tp Y I rip r t sr r rt ru u 4 S a r t ai f p t re e ra dd 1 sr at f 4 a w to y J f s rl f err erre e f r 1 r i d i Li r h 2 r 1 di deb M ww r 3 eJ eJA A lIty iw w M Am c XE f c l lM f i fr e ea r X Xea t i l I y yi M r TU TUter ter r 4 h J i a ab we ii s b y Y t t ti i iP byn yn y ya j 1 t te d i M P 1 F f b r o f C rr 1 t e ter t 4 a y iS A t ya 9 3 c J i Ati S d r 11 a r r i iT T q q t r r rr t f M J f t 1 Y Yr YM sJ 4 c Y t r Ye e e 4 A I Ad Ady Adt t y l M r y 9 ac acAd t d l lt t e i J mr ad f e G r pt x w f t tr r s rc r s r r 4 I xV x e A gaud y J Jy ya t y d p pt s conception of the worldly and painting a JS r r wicked woman Mary y Magdalene dal wes wesa ing of formerly supposed to baY have been before Dg aDUl the lips 5 r I 4 a r s a she he came under unde the Saviour Savio s 's x xea e scribes crib c and aJ a ea ov Tl ts JSu U P ari by tfx T t r a a aA A JS ITE sinful woman whom theSa the r I TIIE forgave and saved from a cruel croel punishment is barred from tho thod d Bibles Bible's pages by Professor Edgar Good Good- Goodspeed speed Good speed of the University of Chicago In his recently published American I TranslatIon of the New Testament ho he omits completely the appealing story of the nameless sinner who was arraIgned by the scribes and Pharisees before J Jesus m In the temple and whom tp their great amazement he refused to c condemn say SlY saying ing to her instead Go and sin no more Outside of the tho stories stones of the Saviours Saviour's birth and crucifixion on there arc are probably few things in m tho the New Testament whIch are more widely known or have taken a stronger hold bold on the tho worlds world's tion than than the incident through which Professor Goodspeed has s seen n fit to draw his editorial blue pencil u I As Aa it is related in 1 other versions of the New Testament where for It has touched the hearts of countless millions the episode tooL took place early one morning just after Jesus had returned to Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives We are told that He came again into the temple andall and all the people came unto Him and He sat down nod and taught them Ills His words were interrupted by the en- en entrance en entrance trance of the scribes and Pharisees bringing with them a woman perhaps woman tearful perhaps sullenly defiant They act her down in 1 the midst of the grOUp I gathered about Jesus As one of the womans woman's self righteous self I captors explained she had been taken under circumstances which left no doubt as to her guilt He called attention to I toI the command in the law of Moses that such sinners as this should be stoned and then he besought the Master to sa say If this punishment should be meted out outto to her In the eighth chapter of the Gospel according to St John as it appears in ia inthe the older bider lder versions of the New Testament the narrative continues in m these few and simple yet powerfully dramatic words 6 Tin Thi The they laid aid tempting h bini i I that the they might ht have hAYe to acca him hm But J Jew Jesu stooped looped down dower and aDd WIth his Llo hi gags finger wrote on OD th tb ground M s h lie he hoard heard them not Dot 7 So when they continued ask fil filing iD lag ing him hm he lifted up ap I himself and aad I said aid aid unto them He that is i without on sin D moa among you ou let him ham grit cut cast a 11 ar atone r at her I 8 And ADd again araia he stooped do down V and aDd wrote on the ground 9 And Aad the they which heard hard it it belD being convicted b by their own con co- science went out oat one b by one be- be be b ginning at the eldest even evea unto onto r I TIr refusing to R 1 Pie file he woman who according to the law of Moses Moses should be stoned the lat last and Jean was wa left alone and aDd the woman standing in ia the midst mid t 10 0 10 When Ju Jesus J u had rifted lifted op up himself and saw aw Doa none bat but the woman ha ho said aid aid unto onto her W Woo whore are thaI those tho o thin LM-I cc- cc cc ec 1 hath bath no man con coa condemned thee 1 11 She said aid aid No ma man Lord And Jela J Jeans said aid aid un oa unto to her Neither do 1 I con coa- condemn dema the thee go o and aad sin sia in no nomore nomore nomore more There the story ends aggra aggra enough for the reader whose curiosity is piqued by a 11 desire to know what became of the woman who escaped a cruel ernel punishment pUI and was so gener goner generously forgiven by the Master Was she overcome by pen peni tence penitence for her shame Did Dad she forsake the sinful life which had brought her BO so near to a 4 miserable fate Or was Christs Christ's admonition andall soon forgotten and andall andall all her old wickedness quickly resumed Neither the New Testament nor any other record bearing On the life We of Jesus can supply any tangible clew to an In answer to these Who the woman was whose whoso appearance brought the peaceful gathering in 1 the temple to its surprising close or what the future held for her is 18 only a matter fur for guesswork Many students have tried to identify y her with one of the theother theother theother other women who figure so prominently chapters in m the later chap of the Saviours Saviour's those life life souls who followed Hun Him Huneven even to the foot of the TOM who mourned outside His Ills sepulcher and who beheld Him after His llis Until recently a II great many titters commentators held to the theory that the woman forgiven in the temple was the same one who appears later in the New Testa Testaments merits merit's pages as Mary Magdalene B Bat t now this theory is pretty well exploded According to the newest and most gen gen- generally generally Melly accepted views Marys Mary's name was not Magdalene the penitent but Mary of the tho town of Magdala near It was the association of penitence WIth her character winch which led to her being thought the woman whom the scribes and Pharisees brought before Christ in inthe inthe the temple t I II I r d N 5 Z i t u F FIS IS tE i i irya r gk fr tr W o rya A f fa rt vi 5 ir a y y r i lk i r l v a rS l lre re s h r t tl r rl rC rl rf l ta ti i 1 l sk a C Jt l f r rW j c c t la i il iA it iu l A t s- s u P t r Rte The feet of Jesus Jem being bathed in tears by Mary the same woman many Bible students believe to whom He said in the temple Go and andain fn ain no DO more Another reason for far the popular eon con conception that she had Imd formerly been a sinful woman lay IllY m the tact fact that be- be before be before fore coming under the tho influence of the Saviours Saviour's healing powers she sire had been tormented by seven seven demons In New days this thin term was loosely l employed to describe both physical and moral diseases and quite naturally would have been applied to a n woman man of evil character The fact that Mary MaTy Magdalene was so dose close to Jesus mother and his aunt IS another reason why it seems probable that she was no outcast but a woman o of virtue refinement and social position There is far better support for the tho I theory held by same some eminent scholars that the sinful woman of the temple m- m incident in incident was the same Mme who later under the name of Mary paid Jesus such a touching tribute of love and reverence m in inthe inthe the house of m Simon the Pharisee If II this could be bo established as a positive fact bet betIt It would round out very fittingly the story told in the eighth chapter of the tho theold theold old versions of St Johns John's GospeL As the th New Testament tells us Mary arrived arnved at Simon Simons Simona house soon after Jesus Her womans woman's eye was quick quid to note that the host had failed faded to give has kiss Toss of salutation guest the customary and also to provide a b barn sm of water for forthe forthe or orthe the dusty dasty traveler a l r I So when they continued co paico ask ask- ask ask- asking Mary Magdalene as the pai painter ing ing him he imagines she looked in her penitent lifted up him himself days after Jesus had bad relieved her ber from self and said the torments of the seven teven demons demon into them em Ha He HaMary e e by o that is as with with- without out sin sm among you let him first fast cast a stone tone at ather St her St John viii vai 7 Although Mary accord according ing jag to St St Luke Lake was a 3 woman in ID the city which was a sinner she had come to the Pharisees Pharisee's ees ee's house bringing an ter box of ointment WIth which to do homage to the tho Master Simons Simon's neglect gave tier hOer the opportunity she sought Kneeling devoutly before Jesus Jesus she bathed His ills feet WIth her tears tears and then thai dried them w with h the long cow coils of hair that hung from frem her bead head She opened the alabaster box boa poured some of the tho presto precious z ointment over His feet and kissed them Simon said not a 11 word whIle all this was going on on but St St Luke says ho he was thinking that Jesus would sin that the woman was an outcast and rebuke her When J Jesus caus finally spoke however it was Simon bun bun- him him self and not the weeping reverent woman He re- re rebuked re rebuked baked Ho He reminded the Pharisee of his neglect to offer a kiss and a basin of water and of the way the kneeling woman had bad sup sup- sup supplied plied phed these lacks Jacks And then He spoke the words wor-ds whIch SInce haw have been the sub suI subject of so much mach co contro controversy tro- tro bo versy verS here Wherefore r rore ore Isay I say onto the thee Her i sins in which are man many are r forgiven 0 r I i e II for L b thee her i sins whom hut little is il for for for- given the am ain little Because she sho was or had bad been a sinner because e she seemed to have hava such a very strong reason for showing the SavIour gratitude and these reverence reverence these are arc the reasons why many New Testament situ stu dents dents think the woman who received for for- for forgiveness in Simons Simon's house was the same samelie lie He had once before forgiven in the tem tem- temple temple pie The Tho remarkable change hange which had come over Mary as a result of Jesus Jesos Influence is strikingly pictured by Gio- Gio Giovanni Gio vanni the Italian writer in m his lus Life Ll e of Christ where ho hG says This sinning woman who entered tho bouso of Simon with her bar box boi of 0 ter was no longer a sinner She was no longer a woman for hire she had heard Jesus speak and was no longer the pub pul pub lie lie he woman flesh on sale for masculine desires The woman who who I had belonged to every one had learned that there thera isa is a alove love more moro beautiful than lust lust a poverty richer than clinking corns coins Whether scholarship can establish their Identity or not many New Testa Testament t readers will be eager to believe that the Mary who appeared at Simons Simon's house was also alo the heroine herome of the memorable temple incident which is 18 now being d- d de denied needa DIeda need DIed a place in the Bibles Bible's pages Professor Goodspeed says ho omitted the appealing story from his IDS version of the New Testament because modern scholarship is 18 a unit amt in ID declaring it not a 8 apart apart part of St St John He says it docs does not appear In to any of the oldest and best Greek manuscrIpts England The Beza Berg manuscript at Cambridge Eng land dating back to the sixth century is 13 the only early Greek manuscript in which it is 18 found he says It most moat commonly appears in the medieval manu manu- manuScrIpts manuscripts scripts mann ScrIpts between the tenth and tho the fifteenth ff fifteenth centuries Professor Goodspeed is of the tho opinion that the story originated in the local Gospels of the Hebrews HebreW or ur the tho Egyptians of the tha second century But ho he points out that it not was included in inmost inmost most of the authentic versions such soch as the Armenian Gothic Sync or It is not a question of the truth troth of the story he says but whether it sit is part of the Gospel according to St St John Johir Only one reflection of it is found among the Greek fathers before the tenth ceo ceo- can tatty cen That is in the so-called so constitutions Prof Professor ur Goodspeeds Goodspeed's version version of at the tho New Testament is 18 being highly praised hut but millions of earnest Bible readers will feel regret that he could not see seo hIS has way clear to include in ID its pages one of too the most familiar and most significant In- In in incidents In the whole life Me of Jesus Outside of its powerful human appeal the tho story of tho the woman of Jerusalem's streets who was forgiven instead of being condemned has hns always been of extraordinary interest because it oon con contains the only men mention bon to be found any auy anywhere where of Jesus writing But Jesus stooped down and with his finger wrote on the ground as though he heard them not not In spite of this one bitof bit of evidence to the he contrary Renan and other au as au authorities on New Testament history hIVe have strongly maintained that Jesus wu was a man of LWe or no education i that he be was unable enable either to or to orto read I |