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Hasn't the Scripture said that the Messiah comes of the seed of David, and from Beit-Lechem, the village where David was?"
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So there arose a division in the multitude because of him.
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Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.
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The officers therefore came to the chief Kohanim and Perushim, and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?"
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The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!"
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The Perushim therefore answered them, "Are you also led astray?
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Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Perushim?
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But this multitude that doesn't know the law is accursed."
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Nakdimon (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,
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"Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"
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They answered him, "Are you also from the Galil? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of the Galil."