John 7:44-51

⁴⁴And some of them had a desire to take him; but no man put hands on him.

⁴⁵Then the servants went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, Why have you not got him with you?

⁴⁶The servants made answer, No man ever said things like this man.

⁴⁷Then the Pharisees said to them, Have you, like the others, been given false ideas?

⁴⁸Have any of the rulers belief in him, or any one of the Pharisees?

⁴⁹But these people who have no knowledge of the law are cursed.

⁵⁰Nicodemus — he who had come to Jesus before, being himself one of them — said to them,

⁵¹Is a man judged by our law before it has given him a hearing and has knowledge of what he has done?