rsv John:7:40-53
rsv@John:7:40 @ When they heard these words, some of the people said, "This is really the prophet."
rsv@John:7:41 @ Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "Is the Christ to come from Galilee?
rsv@John:7:42 @ Has not the scripture said that the Christ is descended from David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"
rsv@John:7:43 @ So there was a division among the people over him.
rsv@John:7:44 @ Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.
rsv@John:7:45 @ The officers then went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, "Why did you not bring him?"
rsv@John:7:46 @ The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!"
rsv@John:7:47 @ The Pharisees answered them, "Are you led astray, you also?
rsv@John:7:48 @ Have any of the authorities or of the Pharisees believed in him?
rsv@John:7:49 @ But this crowd, who do not know the law, are accursed."
rsv@John:7:50 @ Nicode'mus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them,
rsv@John:7:51 @ "Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?"
rsv@John:7:52 @ They replied, "Are you from Galilee too? Search and you will see that no prophet is to rise from Galilee."
rsv@John:7:53 @ They went each to his own house,