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After listening to these discourses, some of the crowd began to say, "This is beyond doubt the Prophet."
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Others said, "He is the Christ." But others again, "Not so, for is the Christ to come from Galilee?
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Has not the Scripture declared that the Christ is to come of the family of David and from Bethlehem, David's village?"
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So there was a violent dissension among the people on His account.
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Some of them wanted at once to arrest Him, but no one laid hands upon Him.
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Meanwhile the officers returned to the High Priests and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why have you not brought him?"
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"No mere man has ever spoken as this man speaks," said the officers.
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"Are *you* deluded too?" replied the Pharisees;
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"has any one of the Rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him?
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But this rabble who understand nothing about the Law are accursed!"
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Nicodemus interposed--he who had formerly gone to Jesus, being himself one of them.