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Do not the Writings say that the Christ comes of the seed of David and from Beth-lehem, the little town where David was?
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So there was a division among the people because of him.
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And some of them had a desire to take him; but no man put hands on him.
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Then the servants went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, Why have you not got him with you?
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The servants made answer, No man ever said things like this man.
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Then the Pharisees said to them, Have you, like the others, been given false ideas?
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Have any of the rulers belief in him, or any one of the Pharisees?
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But these people who have no knowledge of the law are cursed.
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Nicodemus--he who had come to Jesus before, being himself one of them--said to them,
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Is a man judged by our law before it has given him a hearing and has knowledge of what he has done?
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This was their answer: And do you come from Galilee? Make search and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.