John 7:40-53 - Different Opinions About Jesus

⁴⁰ So some of the people, when they heard these words, said, "This is certainly the Prophet!" ⁴¹ Others said, "This is the Christ!" But they rejoined, "What! Is the Christ to come from Galilee? ⁴² Do not the Scriptures say that the Christ is to spring from the descendants of David and to come from the village of Bethlehem where David lived?" ⁴³ So the people were divided about him, ⁴⁴ and some of them wanted to arrest him, yet no one laid hands on him.

⁴⁵ The attendants went back to the high priests and Pharisees, and they said to the attendants, "Why have you not brought him?"

⁴⁶ The attendants answered, "No man ever talked as he does!"

⁴⁷ The Pharisees answered, "Have you been imposed upon too? ⁴⁸ Have any of the authorities or of the Pharisees believed in him? ⁴⁹ But these common people who do not know the Law are doomed!"

⁵⁰ One of them, Nicodemus, who had previously gone to Jesus, said to them, ⁵¹ "Does our Law condemn the accused without first hearing what he has to say, and finding out what he has done?"

⁵² They answered, "Are you from Galilee too? Study and you will find that no prophet is to appear from Galilee."

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