John 7:46-52

⁴⁶“Nobody ever spoke like this man does,” the guards replied.

⁴⁷“Have you been fooled too?” the Pharisees asked them.

⁴⁸“Has a single one of the rulers or Pharisees believed in him? No!

⁴⁹But this crowd that knows nothing about teachings of the law—they're damned anyway!”

⁵⁰Nicodemus, who had previously gone to meet Jesus, was one of them and asked them,

⁵¹“Does our law condemn a man without a hearing and without finding out what he actually did?”

⁵²“So you're a Galilean as well, are you?” they replied. “Check the Scriptures and you'll discover that no prophet comes from Galilee!”