John 8:8

πάλιν κ. ἔ. He again refuses to have the office of judge thrust upon Him. The Reader of men’s hearts knew how His challenge would work: no one would respond to it.

ἔγραφεν. Imperfect, as in John 8:6. A Venetian MS. ascribed to the 10th century has the remarkable reading ‘wrote on the ground the sins of each one of them.’ The same strange idea appears in Jerome and elsewhere, shewing how soon men began to conjecture what He wrote. Others suppose that He wrote the answer in John 8:7. As has been shewn on John 8:6, it is not certain that He wrote anything.