The hundred year old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared

Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home, Allan Karlsson is waiting for a party he doesn't want to begin.  His one-hundredth birthday party to be precise.  The Mayor will be there.  The press will be there.  But, as it turns out, Allan will not...

Escaping (in his slippers) through his bedroom window, into the flowerbed, Allan makes his getaway.  And so begins his picaresque and unlikely journey involving criminals, several murders, a suitcase full of cash, and incompetent police.  As his escapades unfold, Allan's earlier life is revealed.  A life in which- remarkably- he played a key role behind the scenes in some of the momentous events of the twentieth century.

Enter the world of Allan Karlsson, who during his extraordinary life (100 years!), has met some of the world's most influential leaders including Henry Truman, Stalin and Mao Zedong.  I had a great time 'tagging along' this adventure of his and found myself chuckling at several parts of the book (especially the part involving Kim Jong Il as a young boy).

However, the part that stood out the most involved an excerpt from the Bible.  I don't know if it caught my attention the way it did because of certain 'developments' at home or if it just hit me because I, too, am guilty of occasionally judging the behavior of the people around me?   Anyway, this is how it goes:

... he looked up John 8:7 in the Gideon Bible in his room... The chapter in question was about the woman who committed adultery and whom the Pharisees had taken before Jesus to place him in a dilemma.  If according to Jesus the woman should not be stoned for her crime, then Jesus was rejecting Moses (the Book of Leviticus).  If, on the other hand, Jesus was on the same side as Moses, then he would be battling with the Romans who had the monopoly on the death sentence,  Would Jesus go against Moses or the Romans?  The Pharisees thought that they had the Master cornered.  But Jesus was Jesus and after thinking it over he said: 

'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone!'   

Jesus had thus avoided arguing with Moses and with the Romans, or for that matter with the Pharisees. The Pharisees went off, one by one (men, in general, are of course not in the slightest bit free of sin).  Finally, only Jesus and the woman remained.
'Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?'
'No one,' she answered.
'Then neither do I condemn you,' Jesus declared.  'Go now and sin no more.'