⁴⁵So the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees. And they said to them, “Why^m did you not bring him?” ⁴⁶The officers replied, “Never has a man spoken like this!” ⁴⁷Then the Pharisees replied to them, “You have not also been deceived, have you?^* ⁴⁸Noneⁿ of the rulers or of the Pharisees have believed in him, have they?^* ⁴⁹But this crowd who does not know the law is accursed!”

⁵⁰Nicodemus, the one who came to him previously—who was one of them—said to them, ⁵¹“Our law does not condemn a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, does it?”^* ⁵²They answered and said to him, “You are not also from Galilee, are you?^* Investigate and see that a prophet does not arise from Galilee!” ⟦⁵³And each one went to his own house.^o

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8But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

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Footnotes

mLiterally “because of what”
*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “have you”
nLiterally “not anyone”
*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “have they”
*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “does it”
*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “are you”
o John 7:53–8:11 is not found in the earliest and best manuscripts and was almost certainly not an original part of the Gospel of John; one significant group of Greek manuscripts places it after Luke 21:38