John 7:40-53 - Different Opinions About Jesus
40 Then many of the crowd, having heard the word, said, This is truly a prophet. 41 Others said, This is Christ: and others said, Yet Christ comes not out of Galilee. 42 Said not the writing, That of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the town where David was, Christ comes? 43 Then was there a division in the crowd on his account. 44 And some of them wished to seize him; but none put hands upon him.
45 Then came the servants to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them, Why did ye not bring him
46 And the servants answered, Never spake man as this man.
47 Then the Pharisees answered them, Have ye not also been deceived 48 Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him? 49 But the crowd, not knowing the law, are cursed.
50 Nicodemus says to them, (he having come to him by night, being one of them,) 51 Our law judges not a man, except it first hear from him, and know what he does.
52 They answered and said to him, And art thou not of Galilee? Search, and see: for a prophet has not risen out of Galilee.
53 And each man went to his house.