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Port Orchard, WA
$156.00
Title
Mercy
Artist
Jani Freimann
Medium
Painting - Acrylic
Description
Illustration of Jesus writing in the sand.
The girl stands unaware of the mercy she is about to receive. Her sin fully exposed. Caught in the act of adultery. According to Jewish law, the law of Moses, anyone caught in the act of adultery was to be stoned to death.
John 8:1-11.
The pharasees used this girl to trap Jesus. Would he uphold the law? Jesus turned the situation into a story of mercy.
This painting illustrates how Jesus got their attention by being a peacemaker. He courageously knelt down not once, but two times to write in the sand in front of a crowd of people who would be all to willing to carry out justice. Some think he was gathering his thoughts, but consider the situation and the end result. I believe he was writing their sins into the sand.
When he said, "He who is without sin cast the first stone", the crowd dropped their stones and dispersed. The oldest ones first.
Jesus is placed in a vulnerable position between the girl and the angry crowd. The girl's uncovered hair, in a time when woman covered their hair in public, symbolizes her exposure. Her body is wrapped in a white sheet representing both the shame she feels and her wrapping herself in the cleansing forgiveness she is about to receive.
Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
"No one, sir," she said.
"Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."
He never said that she did not sin, but told her to go live in the forgiveness that she received that day.
Uploaded
May 4th, 2011
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Doniphan, Mo - United States
Amazing work on this wonderful story! Thank God for Grace and Mercy! f/l!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Punta Gorda, FL - United States
Outstanding capture, lighting, shading, color and artwork! F/L …voted for this piece in the EASTER ALL MEDIA contest
Port Orchard, WA - United States
Thank you to the collector from Nebraska for your purchase today. May it be a blessing to you as it has been for me for years to come.
Firestone, CO - United States
Jani, I love the way you've painted this scene. One of the most powerful biblical stories! Congrats on your sale.
Minnetonka, MN - United States
Jani, I love the way you have taken the universal message of forgiveness, and mercy, and giving your style, and your heart felt expression to many of us who have been in the same situation!! I hope you continue to inspire those who see your work, ..keep doing these!! ..and a big congratulations on your sale!!
Jani Freimann replied:
Thank you, Richard. I really enjoyed the whole process of these types of paintings. My family modeled for me. They were so helpful. There are many more of these to come. I had asked a few friends the question, "What does mercy mean to you?" I got lots of great answers, but the one that struck me as the best answer was the friend who said, "Mercy is taking the place of the man who is convicted of a crime. Giving him your freedom." It got me on a search to find something more than being a good Samaritan. The story of the good Samaritan is a good story, but it doesn't capture mercy in the way I wanted to capture it. After reading, and being totally shocked, about a current story of a young woman being stoned to death by a group of men http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=woman+stoned+for+loving+the+wrong+man&FORM=VIRE3#view=detail&mid=6F79A415AA3497A43D306F79A415AA3497A43D30) because of forbidden love (couldn't believe that people still stone people). It brought this story in the Bible to mind. It fit perfectly.
Port Orchard, WA - United States
Thank you, everyone, and thank you to the collector from Texas. :-)
Minnetonka, MN - United States
This is so heavy with emotion as she clutches her garment ..reminded of the Pieter Bruegel painting "Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultry".. (v/f)
Jani Freimann replied:
Thank you for your comment, Richard. I had to look up that image to see for myself. I wasn't aware of that painting until you mentioned it. They do have similarities.
Hemet, CA - United States
Powerful Jani!
Jani Freimann replied:
Thank you, Glenn. I can't even express what an amazing experience this was to think about, process, construct a drawing for, and to finally paint. Life changing.
Port Orchard, WA - United States
Thank you. This painting was done to illustate the beattitude, blessed are the merciful for they will be shown mercy - Matthew 5:7. I could find no better image of mercy than Jesus saving this girls life - John 8: 1-11.
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