John 7: 40 - 53
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| 40
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When they heard these words, some of the people said, "This is really the prophet."
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| 41
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Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "Is the Christ to come from Galilee?
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| 42
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Has not the scripture said that the Christ is descended from David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"
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| 43
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So there was a division among the people over him.
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| 44
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Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.
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| 45
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The officers then went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, "Why did you not bring him?"
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| 46
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The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!"
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| 47
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The Pharisees answered them, "Are you led astray, you also?
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| 48
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Have any of the authorities or of the Pharisees believed in him?
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| 49
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But this crowd, who do not know the law, are accursed."
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| 50
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Nicode'mus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them,
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| 51
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"Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?"
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| 52
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They replied, "Are you from Galilee too? Search and you will see that no prophet is to rise from Galilee."
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| 53
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They went each to his own house,
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