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 that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
• Luke 10:25And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
• Ps 38:12–14They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
• Eccl 3:7A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
• Matt 19:3The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
• Amos 5:10They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
• Luke 11:53–54And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:
• Amos 5:13Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
• Prov 26:17He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.
• Num 14:22Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
• Dan 5:5In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
• Mark 8:11And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him.
• Matt 22:35Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
• Mark 10:2And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
• Matt 10:16Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
• Matt 22:18But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?
• 1 Cor 10:9Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
• Matt 16:1The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.
• Matt 15:23But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
• Gen 49:9Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
• Matt 26:63But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God.
• Ps 39:1I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
• Luke 20:20–23And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.
• Luke 11:16And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven.
• Mark 12:15Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it.
• John 8:2And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.

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