^{40 Ref} Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, "This is truly the prophet."

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

^{42 Ref} Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ comes 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} Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.

^{45 Ref} The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?"

^{46 Ref} The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!"

^{47 Ref} The Pharisees therefore answered them, "You aren't also led astray, are you?

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

^{49 Ref} But this multitude that doesn't know the law is accursed."

^{50 Ref} Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,

^{51 Ref} "Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"

^{52 Ref} They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee."