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Some of the people in the crowd heard him say this and said, "This man is really the Prophet!"
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Others said, "He is the Messiah!" But others said, "The Messiah will not come from Galilee!
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The scripture says that the Messiah will be a descendant of King David and will be born in Bethlehem, the town where David lived."
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So there was a division in the crowd because of Jesus.
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Some wanted to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.
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When the guards went back, the chief priests and Pharisees asked them, "Why did you not bring him?"
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The guards answered, "Nobody has ever talked the way this man does!"
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"Did he fool you, too?" the Pharisees asked them.
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"Have you ever known one of the authorities or one Pharisee to believe in him?
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This crowd does not know the Law of Moses, so they are under God's curse!"
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One of the Pharisees there was Nicodemus, the man who had gone to see Jesus before. He said to the others,
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