John Chapter 7
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7:40. Of that multitude therefore, when they had heard these words of his, some said: This is the prophet indeed.
7:41. Others said: This is the Christ. But some said: Doth the Christ come out of Galilee?
7:42. Doth not the scripture say: That Christ cometh of the seed of David and from Bethlehem the town where David was?
7:43. So there arose a dissension among the people because of him.
7:44. And some of them would have apprehended him: but no man laid hands upon him.
7:45. The ministers therefore came to the chief priests and the Pharisees. And they said to them: Why have you not brought him?
7:46. The ministers answered: Never did man speak like this man.
7:47. The Pharisees therefore answered them: Are you also seduced?
7:48. Hath any one of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?
7:49. But this multitude, that knoweth not the law, are accursed.
7:50. Nicodemus said to them (he that came to him by night, who was one of them):
7:51. Doth our law judge any man, unless it first hear him and know what he doth?
7:52. They answered and said to him: Art thou also a Galilean? Search the scriptures, and see that out of Galilee a prophet riseth not.
7:53. And every man returned to his own house.