They were asking this to trap him so that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped and began to write in the dirt with his finger.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a grain of wheat fall into the earth and die, it abideth by itself alone; but if it die, it beareth much fruit.

"I have said these [things] to you so that you will not fall away.

But if a man goes about in the night, he may have a fall because the light is not in him.