John 8:6

And this they said tempting him, that they might accuse him. But Jesus bowing himself down, wrote with his finger on the ground.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

In The King James Version

This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.

In Context

5Now Moses in the law commanded us to stone such a one. But what sayest thou?

7When therefore they continued asking him, he lifted up himself and said to them: He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

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Cross References

Genesis 49:9Juda is a lion's whelp: to the prey, my son, thou art gone up: resting thou hast couched as a lion, and as a lioness, who shall rouse him? A lion's whelp, etc... This blessing of Juda foretelleth the strength of his tribe, the fertility of his inheritance; and principally that the sceptre and legislative power should not be utterly taken away from his race till about the time of the coming of Christ: as in effect it never was: which is a demonstration against the modern Jews, that the Messiah is long since come; for the sceptre has long since been utterly taken away from Juda.

Psalms 38:12Thou hast corrected man for iniquity. And thou hast made his soul to waste away like a spider: surely in vain is any man disquieted.

Psalms 39:1Unto the end, a psalm for David himself.

Ecclesiastes 3:7A time to rend, and a time to sew. A time to keep silence, and a time to speak.

Daniel 5:5In the same hour there appeared fingers, as it were of the hand of a man, writing over against the candlestick, upon the surface of the wall of the king's palace: and the king beheld the joints of the hand that wrote.

Amos 5:13Therefore the prudent shall keep silence at that time, for it is an evil time.

Matthew Henry on John 8:2-12

The Woman Taken in Adultery. 1 Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. 2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them. 3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, 4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. 5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? 6 This they said, tempting him, that they… Read the whole commentary →

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