I WAS SITTING IN MY STUDY looking out the front window, when I noticed a plain car that was parked in the street under our large oak tree. I did a double take when I saw the antenna on the car's trunk. Then I thought, "Oh, yeah—an unmarked police car from the vice squad." The rumor going around the neighborhood was that a call-girl operation was located a few houses away from our home.
What really disturbed me was that, with spring weather approaching, my two young daughters would soon be riding their bikes up and down the sidewalks of our formerly quiet, family-oriented neighborhood. We enjoyed the close-knit mix of retired people and schoolchildren, and I was upset to think that this activity was going on right in the middle of an enclave I had considered peaceful and secure.
Then I thought about an event that occurred two thousand years ago. In the Gospel of John, an adulterous woman who was said to have been taken "in the very act" was brought to Jesus as he taught in the temple.See John 8:3-11.
