45
The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him?”
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NEW TESTAMENT
All chapters John 7:45–53
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46
The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!”
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47
The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you?
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48
Have any of the rulers or any of the Pharisees believed in him?
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49
But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is cursed.”
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Verse 49. But this multitude … are accursed; that is falls under the curses of the law, by being seduced and led away by false preachers. Witham.
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50
Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,
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51
“Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”
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52
They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”
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Verse 52. They say to Nicodemus: Art thou also a Galilean, who defendest this Galilean, whereas no prophet, nor especially the Messias, comes from Galilee? Witham.—A prophet, properly the prophet: for they could not be ignorant that the prophet Jonas was from Galilee. We have not indeed the article the in this verse, but we find it in ver. 40, with which this appears to correspond. A.
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53
Everyone went to his own house,
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