7:40 | Therefore, some from that crowd, when they had heard these words of his, were saying, “This one truly is the Prophet.” |
7:41 | Others were saying, “He is the Christ.” Yet certain ones were saying: “Does the Christ come from Galilee? |
7:42 | Does Scripture not say that the Christ comes from the offspring of David and from Bethlehem, the town where David was?” |
7:43 | And so there arose a dissension among the multitude because of him. |
7:44 | Now certain ones among them wanted to apprehended him, but no one laid hands upon him. |
7:45 | Therefore, the attendants went to the high priests and the Pharisees. And they said to them, “Why have you not brought him?” |
7:46 | The attendants responded, “Never has a man spoken like this man.” |
7:47 | And so the Pharisees answered them: “Have you also been seduced? |
7:48 | Have any of the leaders believed in him, or any of the Pharisees? |
7:49 | But this crowd, which does not know the law, they are accursed.” |
7:50 | Nicodemus, the one who came to him by night and who was one of them, said to them, |
7:51 | “Does our law judge a man, unless it has first heard him and has known what he has done?” |
7:52 | They responded and said to him: “Are you also a Galilean? Study the Scriptures, and see that a prophet does not arise from Galilee.” |
7:53 | And each one returned to his own house. |