[7:45] When the guards went back, the chief priests and Pharisees asked them, “Why did you not bring him?”
[7:46] The guards answered, “Nobody has ever talked the way this man does!”
[7:47] “Did he fool you, too?” the Pharisees asked them.
[7:48] “Have you ever known one of the authorities or one Pharisee to believe in him?
[7:49] This crowd does not know the Law of Moses, so they are under God's curse!”
[7:50] One of the Pharisees there was Nicodemus, the man who had gone to see Jesus before. He said to the others,
[7:51] “According to our Law we cannot condemn people before hearing them and finding out what they have done.”
[7:52] “Well,” they answered, “are you also from Galilee? Study the Scriptures and you will learn that no prophet ever comes from Galilee.”