John 8:6

New Living Translation

They were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him, but Jesus stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger.

Cross References

Genesis 49:9

Judah, my son, is a young lion that has finished eating its prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness—who dares to rouse him?

Psalm 39:1

I said to myself, “I will watch what I do and not sin in what I say. I will hold my tongue when the ungodly are around me.”

Proverbs 26:17

Interfering in someone else’s argument is as foolish as yanking a dog’s ears.

Ecclesiastes 3:7

A time to tear and a time to mend. A time to be quiet and a time to speak.

Jeremiah 17:13

O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who turn away from you will be disgraced. They will be buried in the dust of the earth, for they have abandoned the Lord, the fountain of living water.

Daniel 5:5

Suddenly, they saw the fingers of a human hand writing on the plaster wall of the king’s palace, near the lampstand. The king himself saw the hand as it wrote,

Amos 5:10

How you hate honest judges! How you despise people who tell the truth!

Amos 5:13

So those who are smart keep their mouths shut, for it is an evil time.

Numbers 14:22

not one of these people will ever enter that land. They have all seen my glorious presence and the miraculous signs I performed both in Egypt and in the wilderness, but again and again they have tested me by refusing to listen to my voice.

Matthew 10:16

“Look, I am sending you out as sheep among wolves. So be as shrewd as snakes and harmless as doves.

Matthew 15:23

But Jesus gave her no reply, not even a word. Then his disciples urged him to send her away. “Tell her to go away,” they said. “She is bothering us with all her begging.”

Matthew 16:1

One day the Pharisees and Sadducees came to test Jesus, demanding that he show them a miraculous sign from heaven to prove his authority.

Matthew 19:3

Some Pharisees came and tried to trap him with this question: “Should a man be allowed to divorce his wife for just any reason?”

Matthew 22:18

But Jesus knew their evil motives. “You hypocrites!” he said. “Why are you trying to trap me?

Matthew 22:35

One of them, an expert in religious law, tried to trap him with this question:

Matthew 26:63

But Jesus remained silent. Then the high priest said to him, “I demand in the name of the living God—tell us if you are the Messiah, the Son of God.”

Mark 10:2

Some Pharisees came and tried to trap him with this question: “Should a man be allowed to divorce his wife?”

Mark 12:15

Should we pay them, or shouldn’t we?” Jesus saw through their hypocrisy and said, “Why are you trying to trap me? Show me a Roman coin, and I’ll tell you.”

Mark 3:2

Since it was the Sabbath, Jesus’ enemies watched him closely. If he healed the man’s hand, they planned to accuse him of working on the Sabbath.

Mark 8:11

When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had arrived, they came and started to argue with him. Testing him, they demanded that he show them a miraculous sign from heaven to prove his authority.

Luke 10:25

One day an expert in religious law stood up to test Jesus by asking him this question: “Teacher, what should I do to inherit eternal life?”

Luke 11:16

Others, trying to test Jesus, demanded that he show them a miraculous sign from heaven to prove his authority.

John 8:2

but early the next morning he was back again at the Temple. A crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them.

1 Corinthians 10:9

Nor should we put Christ to the test, as some of them did and then died from snakebites.