John

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

Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring† of David,* and from Bethlehem,* the village where David was?”

So a division arose in the multitude because of him.

Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.

The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him?”

The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you?

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

But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is cursed.”

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

“Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”