John 7:41-53 ▼

41 Others were saying, “This is the Christ.” Still others were saying, “Surely the Christ is not going to come from Galilee, is He?

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

43 So there arose a division in the multitude because of Him.

44 And some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid hands on Him.

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

46 The officers answered, “Never did a man speak the way this man speaks.”

47 The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You have not also been led astray, have you?

48 “No one of the rulers or Pharisees has believed in Him, has he?

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

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

51 “Our Law does not judge a man, unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, does it?”

52 They answered and said to him, “You are not also from Galilee, are you? Search, and see that no prophet arises out of Galilee.”

53 [And everyone went to his home.