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This they said (A)to test him, (B)that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.

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They were using this question as a trap,(A) in order to have a basis for accusing him.(B)

But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger.

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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.

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This they said, testing Him, that they (A)might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, [a]as though He did not hear.

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Footnotes

  1. John 8:6 NU, M omit as though He did not hear