John 7:40-51

⁴⁰Some out of the crowd therefore, having heard this word, said, This is truly the prophet.

⁴¹Others said, This is the Christ. Others said, Does then the Christ come out of Galilee?

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

⁴³There was a division therefore in the crowd on account of him.

⁴⁴But some of them desired to take him, but no one laid hands upon him.

⁴⁵The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, Why have ye not brought him?

⁴⁶The officers answered, Never man spoke thus, as this man speaks.

⁴⁷The Pharisees therefore answered them, Are ye also deceived?

⁴⁸Has any one of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees?

⁴⁹But this crowd, which does not know the law, are accursed.

⁵⁰Nicodemus says to them (being one of themselves),

⁵¹Does our law judge a man before it have first heard from himself, and know what he does?