John 7:40-53

40Therefore many from the crowd, when they heard this saying, said, “Truly this is the Prophet.”

41Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “Will the Christ come out of Galilee?

42Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem, where David was?”

43So there was a division among the people because of Him.

44Now some of them wanted to take Him, but no one laid hands on Him.

45Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why have you not brought Him?”

46The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this Man!”

47Then the Pharisees answered them, “Are you also deceived?

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

49But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.”

50Nicodemus (he who came to Jesus by night, being one of them) said to them,

51“Does our law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing?”

52They answered and said to him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and look, for no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”

53And everyone went to his own house.