John 7:40-50

40 Some of the people therefore, when they heard these words, were saying, "This certainly is ¹the Prophet."

41 Others were saying, "This is the Christ." Still others were saying, "²Surely the Christ is not going to come from Galilee, is He?

42 "Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from ³the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"

43 So ⁴a division occurred in the crowd because of Him.

44 ⁵Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid hands on Him.

45 The ⁶officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why * did you not bring Him?"

46 The ⁷officers answered, "⁸Never has a man spoken the way this man speaks."

47 The Pharisees then answered them, "⁹You have not also been led astray, have you?

48 "¹⁰No one of ¹¹the rulers or Pharisees has believed in Him, has he?

49 "But this crowd which does not know the Law is accursed."

50 ¹²Nicodemus (he who came to Him before, being one of them) said to them,

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