Mene Mene Teckel Upharsin

And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
		This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
		TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
		PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. 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. Did you ever wonder what Jesus wrote on the ground before the woman caught in adultery and her accusers in John 8? The last time that same finger wrote anything in recorded history was in Daniel 5.  The message would be entirely appropriate only this time a translation would not be necessary because every Jewish child would know the dramatic story from Daniel.  It was a message to the Jewish leaders that brought the woman and applied to them as well to the temple worship they were about to lose because, though they could recognize the woman's sin, they would not recognize God in person and His grace and salvation to all.