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After some of the crowd heard Jesus say these words, they said, "This man is certainly the prophet."
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Other people said, "This man is the Messiah." Still other people asked, "How can the Messiah come from Galilee?
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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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So the people were divided because of Jesus.
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Some of them wanted to arrest him, but they couldn't.
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When the temple guards returned, the chief priests and Pharisees asked them, "Why didn't you bring Jesus?"
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The temple guards answered, "No human has ever spoken like this man."
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The Pharisees asked the temple guards, "Have you been deceived too?
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Has any ruler or any Pharisee believed in him?
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This crowd is cursed because it doesn't know Moses' Teachings."
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One of those Pharisees was Nicodemus, who had previously visited Jesus. Nicodemus asked them,