John 8:6

John explains they asked this to test Jesus and find grounds to accuse Him, while Jesus stooped and wrote on the ground. Their question was a trap, and Jesus responds with calm deliberation.

Cross-references · 26

• Jer 17:13O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.
• Luke 10:25One day an expert in the law stood up to test Him. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
• Ps 38:12–14Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.
• Eccl 3:7a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,
• Matt 19:3Then some Pharisees came and tested Him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
• Amos 5:10There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.
• Luke 11:53–54As Jesus went on from there, the scribes and Pharisees began to oppose Him bitterly and to ply Him with questions about many things,
• Amos 5:13Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, for the days are evil.
• Prov 26:17Like one who grabs a dog by the ears is a passerby who meddles in a quarrel not his own.
• Num 14:22not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—
• Dan 5:5At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing,
• Mark 8:11Then the Pharisees came and began to argue with Jesus, testing Him by demanding from Him a sign from heaven.
• Matt 22:35One of them, an expert in the law, tested Him with a question:
• Mark 10:2Some Pharisees came to test Him. “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” they inquired.
• Matt 10:16Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
• Matt 22:18But Jesus knew their evil intent and said, “You hypocrites, why are you testing Me?
• 1 Cor 10:9We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.
• Matt 16:1Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came and tested Jesus by asking Him to show them a sign from heaven.
• Matt 15:23But Jesus did not answer a word. So His disciples came and urged Him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.”
• Gen 49:9Judah is a young lion—my son, you return from the prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him?
• Matt 26:63But Jesus remained silent. Then the high priest said to Him, “I charge You under oath by the living God: Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God.”
• Ps 39:1For the choirmaster. For Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, “I will watch my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are present.”
• Luke 20:20–23So they watched Him closely and sent spies who pretended to be sincere. They were hoping to catch Him in His words in order to hand Him over to the rule and authority of the governor.
• Luke 11:16And others tested Him by demanding a sign from heaven.
• Mark 12:15But Jesus saw through their hypocrisy and said, “Why are you testing Me? Bring Me a denarius to inspect.”
• John 8:2Early in the morning He went back into the temple courts. All the people came to Him, and He sat down to teach them.

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