NEW TESTAMENT

John 7:52

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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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