John 7:45-John 8:1 - Debate Over Jesus' Claims

⁴⁵ Meanwhile the officers returned to the High Priests and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why have you not brought him?"

⁴⁶ "No mere man has ever spoken as this man speaks," said the officers.

⁴⁷ "Are *you* deluded too?" replied the Pharisees; ⁴⁸ "has any one of the Rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him? ⁴⁹ But this rabble who understand nothing about the Law are accursed!"

⁵⁰ Nicodemus interposed--he who had formerly gone to Jesus, being himself one of them. ⁵¹ "Does our Law," he asked, "judge a man without first hearing what he has to say and ascertaining what his conduct is?"

⁵² "Do you also come from Galilee?" they asked in reply. "Search and see for yourself that no Prophet is of Galilaean origin."

⁵³ So they went away to their several homes;

¹ but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.