John 7:47-52

47Then the Pharisees responded to them, “Are you fooled too?

48Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in him?

49But this crowd, which doesn’t know the law, is accursed.”

50Nicodemus  — the one who came to him previously and who was one of them — said to them,

51“Our law doesn’t judge a man before it hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it?”

52“You aren’t from Galilee too, are you?” they replied. “Investigate and you will see that no prophet arises from Galilee.” [The earliest mss do not include 7:53–8:11.] [