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Some who had been listening to these words began to say: “This is truly the Prophet.”

Others said:

“This is the Messiah.”

But some wondered:

“Would the Messiah come from Galilee?

Doesn’t Scripture say that the Messiah will be a descendant of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”

The crowd was divided over him.

Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.

The officers of the temple went back to the chief priests, who asked them:

“Why didn’t you bring him?”

The officers answered:

“No one ever spoke like this man.”

The Pharisees answered them:

“Have you also been deceived?

Have any of the authorities or any of the Pharisees believed in him?

Only these accursed people who do not know the law!”

Yet one of them, Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier, spoke out:

“Does our law condemn people without first hearing them and knowing the facts?”

They replied:

“Do you, too, come from Galilee? Look it up and see for yourself that no prophet is to arise from Galilee.”

And they all went home.