John 7:43-49

⁴³So the people were divided because of what they thought about Jesus.

⁴⁴Some people wanted to seize him, but no one tried to do that.

⁴⁵So the Temple guards returned to the chief priests and the Pharisees, the ones who had sent them to arrest Jesus. They said to the guards, “Why did you not seize him and bring him here?”

⁴⁶They replied, “No one ever spoke such amazing things as this man does!”

⁴⁷Then the Pharisees replied, “Have you been deceived {Has he deceived you}, too?

⁴⁸◄None of our rulers nor any of us Pharisees have believed that ‘he is the Messiah!/he came from God!’/Have any of our Jewish rulers or any of us Pharisees believed that ‘he is the Messiah?/he came from God?’► RHQ

⁴⁹Not one! But, on the contrary, some of this crowd have believed in him. They do not know the true teachings of our laws! They will go to hell for listening to him!”