Husband Gives Bible to Wife's Killer in Court

[wyguy]

Husband Gives Bible to Wife's Killer in Court

The New York Post) - A husband shocked a Manhattan, N.Y., court by giving his wife's murderer a Bible and encouraging him to save his soul, the New York Post reported Tuesday.

"God is going to be with you," Noel Pumarejo sobbed, his hand on a boxed bible and his eyes on David Andrango, 32, who stabbed his wife to death over $10,000 in missing gold when they worked together at an Upper East Side boutique three years ago.

"Just read this Bible, and come to him (Jesus), and save your soul. God bless you, David," he told the convicted killer.

The judge showed less mercy -- sentencing illegal immigrant Andrango, originally from Ecuador, to 25-years-to-life imprisonment.

The store where Sandra Pumarejo worked as a bookkeeper fired Andrango after he swiped $10,000 in raw gold -- but she promised not to call the cops if he would pay it back, and even helped him work out a restitution schedule.

Andrango stabbed her to death in the jewelry store days later, after paying only $400 back.

"I know that nothing will bring her back," Andrango said Monday, when given his own chance to speak.

"I didn't think very well before acting," he said, through a Spanish interpreter. "I've lost my family, my children. But I will keep you in my prayers forever, all of you," he told Noel Pumarejo.

"All of you. I can't look you very straight in the face. I am ashamed.

"Thank you for the Bible. I will take it with me all of the time. I will always read it," he added.

Noel Pumarejo was gracious about the man who murdered his wife of 19 years after the sentencing, saying, "Now I want for him to be saved, too. I don't care about the sentence. I just care for his soul."

http://www.myfoxla.com/dpps/news/dpgonc-no...0100413_7042441

[Believer1997]

Wow. What a testimony to love and forgiveness. I do not know that I could have done that.... God is still working with me.

[Guest lovinghim4ever]

Wow. What a testimony to love and forgiveness. I do not know that I could have done that.... God is still working with me.

Yea, what she said!

[sunnier]

Now THAT is walking the walk and not just talking the talk which a whole lot of us are very good at.

[Slepsog4]

The guy is a thief and a murderer and should have been executed within an hour of the end of the trial.

[ayin jade]

The guy is a thief and a murderer and should have been executed within an hour of the end of the trial.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?searc...amp;version=NIV

[Slepsog4]

The woman who was murdered is not in a position to forgive him. The thief on the cross was still executed even though Jesus promised that he would be in paradise.

The passage from Matthew 18 is about a BROTHER (ie, fellow disciple) who sins against you personally.

Not sure it even comes close to fitting this scenario.

[ayin jade]

The husband of the murdered woman gave her murderer a gift. He showed compassion and revealed Christ in his action and words.

[Slepsog4]

Scripture -- God's Word -- teaches that those who live by the sword... die by the sword. It also teaches that the government does not bear the sword in vain.

[ayin jade]

Jesus also said to forgive 70 times 7.