Moffatt(i)
40 On hearing this some of the people said, "This really is the Prophet";
41 others said, "He is the Christ"; but others said, "No, surely the Christ does not come from Galilee?
42 Does not scripture say it is from the offspring of David, from David's village of Bethlehem, that the Christ is to come?"
43 So the people were divided over him;
44 some wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.
45 Then the attendants went back to the high priests and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why have you not brought him with you?"
46 The attendants replied, "No man ever spoke as he does."
47 The Pharisees retorted, "Are you misled as well?
48 Have any of the authorities or of the Pharisees believed in him?
49 As for this mob, with its ignorance of the Law — it is accursed!"
50 Nicodemus, one of their number (the same who had come to him before), said to them,
51 "But surely our Law does not condemn the accused before hearing what he has to say and ascertaining his offence?"
52 They answered him, "And are you from Galilee, too? Search and you will see that no prophet ever springs from Galilee."
53 [And everyone of them went home,