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What does John 8:6 mean?
"They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger."
— John 8:6 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the middle,
they told him, “Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act.
Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. What then do you say about her?”
They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger.
But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her.”
Again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground.
They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.
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