⁴⁰ Many then of the multitude, when they heard this declaration, said, This man is certainly a prophet. ⁴¹ Others said, He is the Messiah. But others said, No: for cometh the Messiah out of Galilee? ⁴² Doth not the scripture say, That the Messiah cometh of the seed of David, and from the town of Bethlehem, whence David originally was? ⁴³ There was a division therefore among the multitude on account of him. ⁴⁴ Now some of them were desirous to apprehend him; but no one laid hands upon him.

⁴⁵ Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisee; and they said to them, Why have ye not brought him?

⁴⁶ The officers answered, Never did man before speak in such a manner as this man.

⁴⁷ The Pharisees then replied to them, Are ye also deluded? ⁴⁸ Hath any one of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? ⁴⁹ But this rabble, which knoweth not the law, is accursed.

⁵⁰ Nicodemus saith unto them, (the same person who came to him by night, being one of their body,) ⁵¹ Doth our law condemn a man, without first hearing his defence, and knowing what he hath done?

⁵² They answered and said to him, Art thou not from Galilee too? Search and see: for a prophet, out of Galilee, never was raised up.

⁵³ So each went to his own home.