Have you ever wondered why John, the beloved, included the story of the woman taken in adultery

in his record? Surely he had hundreds of stories he could have chosen to complete his testimony.

Find this particular story. We're going to explore at least three things about this tender encounter that you may have never seen before.

That's coming up in this week's podcast.

Hello again, we are Scott and Maureen Proctor, and this is Meridian Magazine's Come Follow Me podcast, number 17.

I am the Good Shepherd, and it includes readings from John, chapter 7 through 10.

We so appreciate Paul Cardol's beautiful music that accompanies this podcast. I have to add a personal notice we start this week's episode.

We recently offered to send you our list of 43 faith scriptures that Maureen and I have, the ones we memorize and make a part of our everyday thinking.

Hundreds of you responded, and we sent that list on to each of you.

One listener who requested the list was a 12-year-old girl who wanted to start memorizing these scriptures.

We were so impressed. We also heard from many of you who said that because of the podcast, you no longer have to study alone.

That made us as happy as anything we've received.

We heard from Saints in Tasmania and in Western Australia and a woman in our beloved York, England.

And finally, we heard from a dear friend in Liberty, Missouri, not in the Liberty jail we might add,

who gathers a group of dear friends on a Sunday evening, and they study together, and then sit back and listen to the podcast using a Bluetooth sound box.

Since we've been to that home, it made all of you so real to us. We're actually talking to people throughout the world. Welcome to each of you, and thanks for listening.

The readings this week are so full of rich stories and wonderful doctrine. It's very hard to narrow down to such a brief discussion.

We do have to start out in John chapter 7, beginning in verse 14.

Now about the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.

If you're reading along in the entire chapter of John 7, we hear seven different references to the feast.

It will help us to understand this feast, which in this case was the feast of the tabernacles. Let's talk about that for just a moment.

There are three major feasts, the Jews celebrated every year, two in the spring and one in the fall.

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