This they said, trying Him, that they might have whereof to accuse Him. But Jesus, having stooped down, was writing with His finger on the ground.

And, again stooping down, He was writing with His finger on the ground.

Having thus spoken, He spit on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and anointed his eyes with the clay,

Verily, verily, I say to you, unless the grain of wheat, having fallen into the ground, dies, it abides alone; but, if it dies, it bears much fruit,

When, therefore, He said to them, "I am He," they went backward, and fell to the ground.