Riverside(i)
40 Some from the crowd, on hearing these words, said, "This man is truly the prophet."
41 Others said, "This is the Christ." Others said, "The Christ is not coming out of Galilee, is he?
42 Does not the Scripture say that the Christ comes of the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"
43 A division arose in the crowd over him.
44 Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.
45 The officers came to the high priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why did you not bring him?"
46 The officers answered, "Never any man spoke as this man speaks."
47 The Pharisees answered them, "Have you also been deluded?
48 Can it be that any one of the rulers or Pharisees has believed in him?
49 But this crowd who do not know the Law are cursed."
50 Nicodemus said to them — he who came to Jesus before — being himself one of them,
51 "Does our Law condemn any man without first hearing from him and learning what he is doing?"
52 They answered him, "Can it be that you too are from Galilee? Examine and see that from Galilee no prophet arises."
53 [They went each to his home,