John 7:40-51

⁴⁰Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, “This is truly the prophet.”

⁴¹Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?

⁴²Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”

⁴³So a division arose in the multitude because of him.

⁴⁴Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.

⁴⁵The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him?”

⁴⁶The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!”

⁴⁷The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you?

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

⁴⁹But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is cursed.”

⁵⁰Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,

⁵¹“Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”