What Did Yeshua Write Upon the Ground? Surprising Answer!

John 8:3-11 -- And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? 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. So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

What did Yeshua write as He was stopped down on the ground? In my school, they believe these possibilities:

· That He was writing the sins of the accusers.
· Jesus wrote the seventh commandment – Thou shalt not commit adultery.
· That He wrote the name of the man, who co-sinned with the adultress, but was not brought forth.
· That He wrote something about the mercy and forgiveness of YHWH.
· That He just scribbled on the ground – and my professor says that this is what he personally believes.

But if we go back one chapter, into John 7, we see that it was a feast day, as verse 2 tells us, “Now the Jews' Feast of Tabernacles was at hand.” It was a custom on the Feast of Tabernacles to offer YHWH a drink offering, and so everyone was carrying a pot of water and was pouring it out upon the altar. * During this event, Yeshua cried, “He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water” – John 7:38. The Pharisees rejected Him as the Messiah, because they recognized Him from Galilee, saying, “Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.” They had not recognized that He was born in Bethlehem, which fulfills the Scripture in Micah 5:2, which says, “But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.”

And so it was written in Jeremiah 17:13 -- 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.

Therefore, Yeshua was fulfilling that prophecy, when He stooped to write upon the ground, for it was at the Feast of Tabernacles, the day prior to the occurrence, that they rejected Him, the fountain of living waters.

©2010 Kimberly Padilla, A.A. Religion