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The religious leaders, consumed in their jealousy and hypocrisy, brought to Him a woman caught in the act of adultery. They had devised a plan by which to discredit Jesus (145:6) Their plan centered around what they considered to be the essence of the religion of God: law. "Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?" they asked Jesus concerning the woman. They reasoned that if He sanctioned her stoning, He would be regarded as cruel and would lose the esteem in which the people held Him. And, likewise, if He sanctioned her release, He would be viewed as an infidel, one who rejected the law of Moses. According to the rules, their plan seemed foolproof. But what they didn't realize, couldn't realize, was that He Who makes the rules, was standing in their midst, and He was about to change them (145:7) When they put this question to Jesus, He chose to ignore them: "But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not." But they continued in their waywardness, following blindly their course of self-destruction. They asked of Him again: "tempting him, that they might have to accuse him"
(145:8)
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