Did Jesus write?

On the night of 31st May I was reading John chapter 8. Here, Jesus is mentioned to be writing on the ground or sand (verses 1-11). The scripture does not tell us exactly what Jesus was writing. Jesus is mentioned to be just writing on the sand when the adulterous (Mary Magdalene) was brought to Him to be judged. My curiosity reveals that Jesus wrote the names and ages of each person present there at that time. After that He said, “He who is without sin among you could first throw a stone at the woman taken in adultery”. And when they heard that and read what He had written on the sand, they left the place one by one. Never again did Jesus write on anything or anywhere except that one time.

So I wanted to know did Jesus actually not write anything intentionally and if so why? According to Wiki Answers, Jesus was definitely literate because He was well-versed with the scriptures (Old Testament) available at that time and kept discussing them with others. It’s quite possible that He could have written many other things but none of them have survived, or there’s a possibility that He knew that a lot of what He said was going to be recorded by His apostles.

But sadly scholars believe that none of His apostles or disciples took part in writing any gospels in the New Testament and the epistles of James, Peter, John and Jude are clearly pseudonymous and were written by church leaders who had no personal acquaintance with Jesus or His disciples. The story of a vision of the end of the world and Jesus’ return was written by John, the disciple whom Jesus loved the most. (Scholars have concluded that John the disciple and John of Patmos were two different people, so the book of revelation was not written by John the disciple.)

What we call now as New Testament books were written (most probably) after His Ascension by His followers (not disciples), none of them bears His commandment to write down His message. Furthermore the fourth Gospel testifies that there are other signs and things which Jesus did but not recorded in His Gospel (John 20:30 and 21:25). He just told his disciples to “go out and preach” and write anything and keep records.

Looks like (again through Wiki Answers), they (Orthodox Church) “threw out” anything that would make Jesus seem less than omnipotent, and embellished the truth. If there were writings by Jesus, they are probably hidden, burnt or long gone to protect the Catholics and Christians from total anarchy within their own religion. It seems, to “protect” the world, Constantine (the Roman emperor) sent out his men to destroy any other evidence of religions that did not speak the “truth” that which is written in the Bible – they could even have burned down any writings along with the library at Alexandria, Egypt, which was the largest and most significant great library of the ancient world!

Or may be one of the reasons why Jesus did not write anything down was because His society was more interested in oral traditions and teachings. Jesus did not leave behind any written records. In fact, there is no suggestion that Jesus wrote anything at all in the Bible. Jesus did not write the Bible.

Still it’s really unbelievable that Jesus did not write or leave behind any writings. I can only hope that one of these days’ archeologists will come across some stone tablet or scroll containing some writings by Jesus.