John 7:40-53 - Different Opinions About Jesus
40 When they heard these words some of the crowd proclaimed: This truly is the prophet! 41 Others said: This is the Christ. But some asked: Does the Christ come out of Galilee? 42 Do the Scriptures say that the Christ comes from 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 wanted to apprehend him. Yet no man laid hands on him.
45 The chief priests and Pharisees asked the officers: Why did you not bring him?
46 No man has ever spoken the way he speaks, they replied.
47 The Pharisees therefore answered them: Are you also deceived? 48 Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in him? 49 This crowd does not know the law. It is contemptible
50 Nicodemus spoke to them. (He is the Pharisee who earlier went to Jesus.) 51 Does our law convict a man without first hearing from him to find out what he has done?
52 They replied: Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.
53 [Then each man went to his own house.] (questionable text)