John [Yah is gracious] 7:40-52

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

⁴¹Others said, “This is the Messiah Anointed one.” But some said, “What, does the Messiah Anointed one come out of Galilee District, Circuit?

⁴²Has not the Scripture said that the Messiah Anointed one comes of the offspring of David Beloved, and from Bethlehem House of Bread, the village where David Beloved lived?”

⁴³So there arose a division 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 Separated, and they said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him?”

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

⁴⁷The Pharisees Separated therefore answered them, “You are not also led astray, are you?

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

⁴⁹True, these 'am-ha'aretz ·people of the land· do, but they know nothing about the Torah ·Teaching·, they are under a curse!”

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

⁵¹“Our Torah ·Teaching· does not condemn a man, does it, until after hearing from him personally and finding out what he’s doing?”

⁵²They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee District, Circuit? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee District, Circuit.”