The Word in the sand...

2  At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3  The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group  4  and said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5  In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?" 6  They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.  But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7  When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." 8  Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.  9  At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there.10  Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"  11  "No one, sir," she said. "Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."   
John 8:2-11

What was he writing on the ground?  Some say, because he is God, he was proving his knowledge to the accusers by writing their sins in full view for all to see.  Others say he may have been listing the 10 commandments, each commandment as convicting of sin as the other.  This is probably the correct view as God wrote the 10 commandments (The Law) for Moses with His finger,  Exodus 31:18.  The Law was written in stone, uncompromising.  Jesus wrote them in the sand, removable (or forgivable thru Him).  Oh, oh, religious people were starting to get ticked.  This Guy was claiming to be able to forgive sin, only God could do that in the Law (the Old Testament).