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Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem, where David was?"
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So there was a division among the people because of Him.
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Now some of them wanted to take Him, but no one laid hands on Him.
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Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, "Why have you not brought Him?"
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The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this Man!"
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Then the Pharisees answered them, "Are you also deceived?
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Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in Him?
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But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed."
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Nicodemus (he who came to Jesus by night, being one of them) said to them,
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"Does our law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing?"
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They answered and said to him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search and look, for no prophet has arisen out of Galilee."
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And everyone went to his own house.