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,
John 7
John 7:43-50