John 7:41-53 ▼

41 Others were saying, “This is the Christ.” Still others were saying, “No, for is the Christ going to come from Galilee?

42 Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”

43 So a division occurred in the crowd because of Him.

44 Some of them were wanting to seize Him, but no one laid hands on Him.

45 The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why did you not bring Him?”

46 The officers answered, “Never has a man spoken like this!”

47 The Pharisees then answered them, “Have you also been led astray?

48 Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?

49 But this crowd which does not know the Law is accursed.”

50 Nicodemus (he who came to Him before), being one of them, said to them,

51 “Does our Law judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing?”

52 They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and see that no prophet arises out of Galilee.”

53 [Everyone went to his home.