40Many of the multitude therefore,when they heard these words,said, “This is truly the prophet.”41Others said, “This is the Christ.”But some said, “What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?42Hasn’t the Scripture saidthat the Christ comes of the offspring of David,and from Bethlehem,the village where David was?”43So a division arose 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;and they said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him?”
46The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!”
47The Pharisees therefore answered them,“You aren’t also led astray, are you?48Have any of the rulers or any of the Pharisees believed in him?49But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is cursed.”
50Nicodemus (he who came to him by night,being one of them) said to them,51“Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him personallyand knows what he does?”
52They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee?Search and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”
53Everyone went to his own house,