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41 Other people said, "This man is the Messiah." Still other people asked, "How can the Messiah come from Galilee?
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Others said, “He is the Messiah.” Still others asked, “How can the Messiah come from Galilee?
42 Doesn't Scripture say that the Messiah will come from the descendants of David and from the village of Bethlehem, where David lived?"
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Does not Scripture say that the Messiah will come from David’s descendants and from Bethlehem, the town where David lived?”
43 So the people were divided because of Jesus.
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Thus the people were divided because of Jesus.
44 Some of them wanted to arrest him, but they couldn't.
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Some wanted to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.
45 When the temple guards returned, the chief priests and Pharisees asked them, "Why didn't you bring Jesus?"
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Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and the Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring him in?”
46 The temple guards answered, "No human has ever spoken like this man."
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“No one ever spoke the way this man does,” the guards replied.
47 The Pharisees asked the temple guards, "Have you been deceived too?
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“You mean he has deceived you also?” the Pharisees retorted.
48 Has any ruler or any Pharisee believed in him?
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“Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him?
49 This crowd is cursed because it doesn't know Moses' Teachings."
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No! But this mob that knows nothing of the law—there is a curse on them.”
50 One of those Pharisees was Nicodemus, who had previously visited Jesus. Nicodemus asked them,
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Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who was one of their own number, asked,
51 "Do Moses' Teachings enable us to judge a person without first hearing that person's side of the story? We can't judge a person without finding out what that person has done."
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“Does our law condemn a man without first hearing him to find out what he has been doing?”
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