John 8:6

But this they were saying to put a nissayon before Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach that they might have something about which to accuse him, but he, having stooped down with his finger, was writing on the ground.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 in our Torah Moshe Rabbeinu gave us a mitzvah to stone such nashim. You, therefore, what do you say? + 8:5 Lv 20:10; Dt 22:22-24; Job 31:11

7But as they were remaining, questioning him, he stood up and said to them, The one without chet (sin) among you, at her let him be first to throw a stone. + 8:7 Dt 17:7; Ezek 16:40

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Cross References

Genesis 49:9Yehudah is the cub of an aryeh (lion); 1 from the prey, beni (my son), thou hast gone up; 1 he stooped down, he couched like an aryeh, 1 and like a lioness; who shall rouse him? 1

Psalms 38:12My loved ones and my re'a 1 stand aloof from my nega; + 38:12 See Isa 53:8 on Moshiachʼs nega 1 and my neighbors stand afar off. 1

Psalms 39:1(For the one directing, even to Yedutun. Mizmor Dovid) 1

Ecclesiastes 3:7An et (season) to tear, 1 and an et (season) to mend; 1 an et (season) to keep silent, 1 and an et (season) to speak; 1

Daniel 5:5In the same hour came forth fingers of a manʼs yad (hand), and wrote opposite the menorah upon the plaster of the wall of the kingʼs heikhal, and the king saw the part of the yad that wrote.

Amos 5:13Therefore the maskil (prudent) shall keep silence in such times; 1 for it is an evil time. 1

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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