6This 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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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.
And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
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?
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
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. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)Though Christ was basely abused in the foregoing chapter, both by the rulers and by the people, yet here we have him still at Jerusalem, still in the temple. How often would he have gathered them ! Observe, I. His retirement in the evening out of the town (John 8:1): He went unto the mount of olives ; whether to some friend’s house, or to some booth pitched there, now at the feast of tabernacles,…
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