John 7:40-53 - Different Opinions About Jesus

⁴⁰ Some of the crowd therefore, when they heard these words, said, "This is truly the Prophet." ⁴¹ Others said, "This is the Messiah." But some said, "What, does the Messiah come out of Galilee? ⁴² Hasn't the Scripture said that the Messiah comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?" ⁴³ So there arose a division in the crowd because of him. ⁴⁴ Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.

⁴⁵ The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why did you not bring him?"

⁴⁶ The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man."

⁴⁷ The Pharisees therefore answered them, "You are not also led astray, are you? ⁴⁸ Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees? ⁴⁹ But this crowd that does not know the Law is accursed."

⁵⁰ Nicodemus (he who came to him before, being one of them) said to them, ⁵¹ "Does our Law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"

⁵² They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee."

⁵³ Everyone went to his own house,