John 7:45–8:1

⁴⁵The officers then went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why did you not bring him?” ⁴⁶The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!” ⁴⁷The Pharisees answered them, “Are you led astray, you also? ⁴⁸Have any of the authorities or of the Pharisees believed in him? ⁴⁹But this crowd, who do not know the law, are accursed.” ⁵⁰Nicodemus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them, ⁵¹“Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?” ⁵²They replied, “Are you from Galilee too? Search and you will see that no prophet is to rise from Galilee.”

⁵³They went each to his own house,

Chapter 8

¹but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.