John 7:45–8:1

Unbelief of the Jewish Leaders

⁴⁵Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and the Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring him in?”

⁴⁶“No one ever spoke the way this man does,”^m the guards replied.

⁴⁷“You mean he has deceived you also?”ⁿ the Pharisees retorted. ⁴⁸“Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him?^{o 49}No! But this mob that knows nothing of the law—there is a curse on them.”

⁵⁰Nicodemus,^p who had gone to Jesus earlier and who was one of their own number, asked, ⁵¹“Does our law condemn a man without first hearing him to find out what he has been doing?”

⁵²They replied, “Are you from Galilee, too? Look into it, and you will find that a prophet does not come out of Galilee.”^q

8⁵³Then they all went home, ¹but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.^r