^{40 Ref} `Some' of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, This is of a truth the prophet.

^{41 Ref} Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, What, doth the Christ come out of Galilee?

^{42 Ref} Hath not the scripture said that the Christ cometh of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?

^{43 Ref} So there arose a division in the multitude because of him.

^{44 Ref} And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.

^{45 Ref} The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why did ye not bring him?

^{46 Ref} The officers answered, Never man so spake.

^{47 Ref} The Pharisees therefore answered them, Are ye also led astray?

^{48 Ref} Hath any of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees?

^{49 Ref} But this multitude that knoweth not the law are accursed.

^{50 Ref} Nicodemus saith unto them (he that came to him before, being one of them),

^{51 Ref} Doth our law judge a man, except it first hear from himself and know what he doeth?

^{52 Ref} They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and see that out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.