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 17:13Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be disappointed. Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.
• Luke 10:25Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
• Ps 38:12–14They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
• Eccl 3:7a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
• Matt 19:3Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
• Amos 5:10They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
• Luke 11:53–54As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;
• Amos 5:13Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.
• Prov 26:17Like one who grabs a dog’s ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.
• Num 14:22because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
• Dan 5:5In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
• Mark 8:11The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, and testing him.
• Matt 22:35One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.
• Mark 10:2Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
• Matt 10:16“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
• Matt 22:18But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test me, you hypocrites?
• 1 Cor 10:9Let us not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.
• Matt 16:1The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.
• Matt 15:23But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away; for she cries after us.”
• Gen 49:9Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?
• Matt 26:63But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”
• Ps 39:1For the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Psalm by David. I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”
• Luke 20:20–23They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.
• Luke 11:16Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven.
• Mark 12:15Shall we give, or shall we not give?” But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, “Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius, that I may see it.”
• John 8:2Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them.

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