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Forgiving Eyes

Words and music by Norbert Putnam and Michael Card
?????? Copyright 1985 (ASCAP??????)
First released on the album SCANDALON (1985), sung by Michael Card (shown at top left)
Collected in the 2-disc set THE LIFE (1993)
The titles of both Michael Card's live album and book, SCRIBBLING IN THE SAND, are inspired by this biblical passage. This song, however, is not on that album.

This scene appears only in John's gospel. It's chapter location is a subject of debate among scholars, so it is placed differently in various translations of the Bible. Also debatable is whether or not the woman in this passage is Mary Magdalene.

Surrounded with shouts, the cruel accusations
Dragged to the court, no hope of salvation
All hope was lost, for those who had caught me
Knew what I was, They knew all about me John 8:????Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery and made her stand in the middle.

I thought it seemed strange as we entered in
They stopped a young rabbi to ask His opinion
Caught in the act, their reason for hating
My body could feel the stones that were waiting John 8:4-6 They said to him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. Now in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?" They said this to test him, so that they could have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger.

In His eyes so gentle I could see
A father and a brother and a son The Prologue to the Rule of the Secular Franciscan Order says "... they are the sons of the heavenly Father, whose works they do, and they are the spouses, brothers, and mothers of our Lord Jesus Christ."

CHORUS:
Just as I saw Him
The hope I had lost became born again
I was not hopeless The phrase "born again" originates from ?????, but was popularized in the 1970's by Chuck Colson in his book of that name.

Though I'd been lost, now I felt I was found
when He looked at me
With His forgiving eyes -

The crowd gathered round, so angry and violent
But He stood beside me, peaceful and silent -

Then with a word
With one question He showed them
That they too were guilty and could not condemn -

The next thing I knew He asked me, Where are they
And I looked around the courtyard was empty
The stones scattered round, the warm morning sunlight
He'd made the darkness perfectly light -

In this new light now I understood
He would not condemn me though He could
For He would be condemned someday for me -

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Surrounded with shouts, the cruel accusations Dragged to the court, no hope of salvation All hope was lost, for those who had caught me Knew what I was, They knew all about me	John 8:????Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery and made her stand in the middle.
I thought it seemed strange as we entered in They stopped a young rabbi to ask His opinion Caught in the act, their reason for hating My body could feel the stones that were waiting	John 8:4-6 They said to him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. Now in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?" They said this to test him, so that they could have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger.
In His eyes so gentle I could see A father and a brother and a son	The Prologue to the Rule of the Secular Franciscan Order says "... they are the sons of the heavenly Father, whose works they do, and they are the spouses, brothers, and mothers of our Lord Jesus Christ."
CHORUS: Just as I saw Him The hope I had lost became born again I was not hopeless	The phrase "born again" originates from ?????, but was popularized in the 1970's by Chuck Colson in his book of that name.
Though I'd been lost, now I felt I was found when He looked at me With His forgiving eyes	-
The crowd gathered round, so angry and violent But He stood beside me, peaceful and silent	-
Then with a word With one question He showed them That they too were guilty and could not condemn	-
The next thing I knew He asked me, Where are they And I looked around the courtyard was empty The stones scattered round, the warm morning sunlight He'd made the darkness perfectly light	-
In this new light now I understood He would not condemn me though He could For He would be condemned someday for me	-
(CHORUS)	-