John 7: 40 - 53
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| 40 | When they heard these words, some of the people said, "This is really the prophet." |
| 41 | Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "Is the Christ to come from Galilee? |
| 42 | Has not the scripture said that the Christ is descended from David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?" |
| 43 | So there was a division among the people over him. |
| 44 | Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him. |
| 45 | The officers then went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, "Why did you not bring him?" |
| 46 | The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!" |
| 47 | The Pharisees answered them, "Are you led astray, you also? |
| 48 | Have any of the authorities or of the Pharisees believed in him? |
| 49 | But this crowd, who do not know the law, are accursed." |
| 50 | Nicode'mus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them, |
| 51 | "Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?" |
| 52 | They replied, "Are you from Galilee too? Search and you will see that no prophet is to rise from Galilee." |
| 53 | They went each to his own house, |
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