"Leave the matter in my hands," He replied; "the time for me to act has not yet come."

And He has conferred on Him authority to act as Judge, because He is the Son of Man.

"Rabbi," they said, "this woman has been found in the very act of committing adultery.

If you know all this, blessed are you if you act accordingly.

but it is in order that the world may know that I love the Father, and that it is in obedience to the command which the Father gave me that I thus act. Rise, let us be going."

"We," replied the Jews, "have a Law, and in accordance with that Law he ought to die, for having claimed to be the Son of God."