John 3:22

Further Testimony About Jesus by John the Baptist

3:22 After this, ¹  Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing.

John 6:21

6:21 Then they wanted to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat came to the land where they had been heading.

John 8:6

8:6 (Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against ²  him.) ³  Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger. ⁴ 

[3:22]  ¹ tn This section is related loosely to the preceding by μετὰ ταῦτα (meta tauta). This constitutes an indefinite temporal reference; the intervening time is not specified.

[8:6]  ² tn Grk “so that they could accuse.”

[8:6]  ³ sn This is a parenthetical note by the author of 7:53–8:11.

[8:6]  ⁴ tn Or possibly “Jesus bent down and wrote an accusation on the ground with his finger.” The Greek verb καταγράφω (katagrafw) may indicate only the action of writing on the ground by Jesus, but in the overall context (Jesus’ response to the accusation against the woman) it can also be interpreted as implying that what Jesus wrote was a counteraccusation against the accusers (although there is no clue as to the actual content of what he wrote, some scribes added “the sins of each one of them” either here or at the end of v. 8 [U 264 700 al]).