This they said, testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he did not hear them.
O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be ashamed, and those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote in front of the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
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 heard and obeyed my voice;
But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said to him, I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.
Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, Why do you put me to the test? Bring me a penny, that I may see it.