^{45 Ref} Then the servants went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, Why have you not got him with you?

^{46 Ref} The servants made answer, No man ever said things like this man.

^{47 Ref} Then the Pharisees said to them, Have you, like the others, been given false ideas?

^{48 Ref} Have any of the rulers belief in him, or any one of the Pharisees?

^{49 Ref} But these people who have no knowledge of the law are cursed.

^{50 Ref} Nicodemus--he who had come to Jesus before, being himself one of them--said to them,

^{51 Ref} Is a man judged by our law before it has given him a hearing and has knowledge of what he has done?

^{52 Ref} This was their answer: And do you come from Galilee? Make search and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.

^{53 Ref} [And every man went to his house;