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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,
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"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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They asked Nicodemus, "Are you saying this because you're from Galilee? Study [the Scriptures], and you'll see that no prophet comes from Galilee."
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Then each of them went home.