From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!dyl
Newsgroups: net.religion
Title: What was Jesus writing with his finger
Article-I.D.: floyd.1351
Posted: Fri Mar 25 20:57:14 1983
Received: Sat Mar 26 12:28:47 1983


When I learned what Jesus was doing, I thought that it is one of the most
neat events in the Bible.

When you ask Jesus something, you always get an answer.  So Jesus was
giving the Pharisees an answer.  As much as Jesus knew, he humbled himself
and reminded the Pharisees with subtlety the author of the Law of Moses.
The Pharisees were puffed up by their knowledge and did not realize the
hint that since Jesus wrote the law with his finger, it was stupid for
anyone to trick him with the law.

The following scriptures support the reasoning above.
	Exodus 3:14
		God said to Moses, "I am who I am.  This is what you are
		to say to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.'"
	Exodus 31:18
		When the LORD finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he
		gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, the tablets of
		stone inscribed by the finger of God.
	John 8:6
		They were using this question as a trap, in order to
		have a basis for accusing him.  But Jesus bent down and
		started to write on the ground with his finger.
	John 8:58
		"I tell you the truth," Jesus answered, "before Abraham
		was born, I am!"
floyd!dyl