Ephiphany
Well, Maybe NOT an epiphany, exactly - but I don't usually remember my dreams after waking.
This one, very interesting ... for Bible Scholars perhaps.
Back in Exodus, Moses - the leader for the Israelite people as they take their leave from Slavery in Egypt, - was tasked to be the Judge between the people of the yet-unformed Country of Israel. Moral disputes and such.
When Moses dies, the task to both lead the nation, AND be the judge (to decide who was in the right when arguments broke up/help find a reasonable compromise when brothers or countrymen got into a disagreement and nobody else was able to - or were unwilling to - make a decisions), and the pattern follows through the lineage of various and numerous judges from all twelve tribes until the age of Kings.
We're not told that King Saul worked alongside the line of Priests - in fact, he tried irradiating the priesthood (at least, those who "allied themselves" with one of his most successful captains, David) - but he did ask for their help when it came to casting lots when asking questions of the Lord.
His successor, King David, is also not specified as being BOTH a Judge AND a War leader. BUT the third consecutive King of Israel (and Judea - this is before the twelve tribes split into two seperate-but-joint kingdoms about four-hundred years prior to the Exile by the Babylonians) King Solomon, is recorded to be a Judge known for his wisdom far and wide.
THE ONLY RECORDED CASE we know King Solomon presided over is when two prostitutes argued over which mother smothered her newborn baby in her sleep, and which one was the mother of the living baby. He figured out which unwed mother was the true mother - she who was willing to give up her claim so the baby would live.
The Irony? The king of millions, the highest legal authority in the land, listened to two outcasts-of-society (hey, this is "the dark ages" where unmarried women were brushed aside - didn't get much better until the time of Jesus, when he gave EQUAL attention to women AND Men), argue over custody. He didn't have to listen, let alone make a decision that kept the family together.
Jump forward about seven hundred to a thousand years later.
The Kings of Israel are a forgotten memory outside the Jewish community. Nobody cares about the history of unnamed women and the trial that WAS life-or-death for one newborn baby.
Along comes Jesus, a preacher, a prophet, the one-and-only-son of God, hated by the ruling classes (Pharisees and Sadducee), disdained by the Romans (they looked down on everyone who wasn't a citizen of Rome), perceived by many to be demon possessed, yet followed by hordes of people wanted a miracle, crowds of people needing a healing touch, mobs of people desiring to be part of something greater (or at least, not down-trodden by the oppressive, bloodthirsty Romans).
Jesus, who was criticized, despised, ostracized, and yet beloved by untold countless others. One of His most famous/often-repeated cases, where he shuts his accusers up?
Also involves a prostitute - this time, instead of a woman bargaining for the life of her child (son's gave mothers status), it is HER life on the line. Adultery, any form of sex-outside-marriage was cause for being stoned to death - perhaps the only thing protecting her before "being caught in the act" of sexual promiscuity, was the fact the Roman Governors disliked it when their unruly subjects dished out death-penalties inside 'subdued' districts.
BUT - and this is part of the trap placed before this wandering preacher of Repentance - individuals convicted of Adultery and prostitution HAD to be punished. So, which Law would Jesus be guilty of breaking? The Roman one who were the dispensers of justice-and-vengeance, or the Jewish law, where every sin MUST be paid for?
Regardless, as far as the Pharsies - the 'legalists' of their time - and their main opponents Sadducees were concerned, the life of the woman was forfeit.
Until Jesus, using some of the same wisdom God Gave Solomon so many generations ago, said "he who has no sin - never broken ANY of the Laws - cast the first stone."
The blood-thirsty crowd of accusers walked away, one by one.
And a life was saved.