Jesus forgives. But there is something more here than forgiveness. For as a confessor Jesus goes beyond the law, for the law said that she had to be punished.
How many of us would deserve to be condemned! And it would also be just. But he forgives! How? With this mercy, which does not eliminate sin: it is God’s forgiveness that eliminates it while mercy goes beyond.
God doesn’t forgive with a decree but with a caress… by caressing the wounds caused by our sins because he is involved in forgiveness, involved in our salvation. God’s mercy is great: forgiving us by caressing us.
--Pope Francis
Image source: Emile Signol, Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (1842), https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%C3%89mile_Signol_-_Christ_and_the_Woman_Taken_in_Adultery_-_79.6_-_Detroit_Institute_of_Arts.jpg
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