John 7:38-50

³⁸I tell you what I have myself seen in the presence of my Father; and you, in the same way, do what you have learned from your father.”

³⁹(By this he meant the Spirit, which those who had believed in him were to receive; for the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been exalted.)

⁴⁰Some of the people, when they heard these words, said, “This is certainly the Prophet!”;

⁴¹others said, “the Christ!”; but some asked, “What! Does the Christ come from Galilee?

⁴²Is not it said in scripture that it is of the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village to which David belonged, that the Christ is to come?”

⁴³So there was a sharp division among the people because of Jesus.

⁴⁴Some of them wanted to arrest him, and yet no one touched him.

⁴⁵When the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, they were asked, “Why have you not brought him?”

⁴⁶“No one ever spoke as he speaks!” they answered.

⁴⁷“What! Have you been led astray too?” the Pharisees replied.

⁴⁸“Have any of our leading men believed in him, or any of the Pharisees?

⁴⁹As for these people who do not know the Law — they are cursed!”

⁵⁰But one of their number, Nicodemus, who before this had been to see Jesus, said to them,