His Finger - John 8:3-7

John 8:3-7 ESV 

The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”

The law of Moses was written in stone by the finger of God. There were no hearts of flesh that could receive the law in directly on the flesh. They were as spiritual stones in receiving the word of God. They received the word on the outside, but it did little to bring light inside a man. 

The light of the world has now come to write the word with His finger directly on the ground, that is the flesh of man. The finger that wrote the word on the stone tablets has come to write His commandments on the heart of man through the giving of the Holy Spirit. The living word of God could be given after man was made a new and living creature from above. 

Throwing the stone of the Old Covenant would give way to sharing the word of the New Covenant. The millstone of the Law would be thrown into the sea.