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John 8:6

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.

KJV

ο δε ιησους κατω κυψας τω δακτυλω κατεγραφεν εις την γην. τοῦτο δὲ ἔλεγον πειράζοντες αὐτόν, ἵνα ἔχωσι κατηγορεῖν αὐτοῦ. ὁ δὲ Ἰησοῦς κάτω κύψας τῷ δακτύλῳ ἔγραφεν εἰς τὴν γῆν.

Greek NT

Hoc autem dicebant tentantes eum, ut possent accusare eum. Jesus autem inclinans se deorsum, digito scribebat in terra.

Vulgate

And this they said, trying him, that they might have whereof to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground.

ASV

And this they said tempting him, that they might accuse him. But Jesus bowing himself down, wrote with his finger on the ground.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γράφω
grapho
verb · 192×
γῆ
ge
noun · 251×
δάκτυλος
daktulos
noun · 10×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
κάτω
kato
adverb · 12×
κατηγορέω
kategoreo
verb · 23×
κύπτω
kupto
verb · 5×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
πειράζω
peirazo
verb · 38×
ἔχω
echo
verb · 707×
ἵνα
ina
conjunction · 665×
Ἰησοῦς
iesous
noun · 908×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

major
The Pericope Adulterae (the woman caught in adultery). This passage is absent from all early Greek papyri and the oldest uncial manuscripts. Its vocabulary and style differ from the rest of John. Many scholars believe it is an authentic tradition about Jesus that was inserted into John at a later date. Some manuscripts place it after John 21:25, after Luke 21:38, or after John 7:36.
  • John 7:52 flows directly into John 8:12 without this passage.P66; P75; Codex Sinaiticus (01/ℵ); Codex Vaticanus (03/B); Codex Alexandrinus (02/A); Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (04/C); Codex Washingtonianus (032/W); Many Old Latin MSS; Oldest Syriac MSS
  • Ἐπορεύθησαν ἕκαστος εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ...Codex Bezae (05/D); Majority of Byzantine MSS (from 9th century onward); Vulgate; Didascalia Apostolorum
  • Same passage relocated to the end of John's Gospel.Family 1 (f¹); Minuscule 1; Minuscule 1582
  • Same passage relocated to Luke's Gospel after Jesus' teaching in the temple.Family 13 (f¹³); Minuscule 13; Minuscule 69
source: curated

Themes

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 10:9 — Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
  • Amos 5:10 — They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
  • Amos 5:13 — Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
  • Dan 5:5 — In 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.
  • Eccl 3:7 — A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
  • Gen 49:9 — Judah 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?
  • Jer 17:13 — O 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.
  • Jer 17:13 — O 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 10:25 — And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
  • Luke 11:53 — And 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:
  • Mark 8:11 — And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him.
  • Mark 10:2 — And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
  • Mark 10:2 — And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
  • Matt 10:16 — Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
  • Matt 12:10 — And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.
  • Matt 15:23 — But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
  • Matt 16:1 — The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.
  • Matt 16:1 — The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.
  • Matt 19:3 — The 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?
  • Matt 22:18 — But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?
  • Matt 22:18 — But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?
  • Matt 22:35 — Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
  • Matt 26:63 — But 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.
  • Num 14:22 — Because 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;
  • Prov 26:17 — He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.
  • Ps 38:12 — They 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.
  • Ps 38:14 — Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.