The Unbelief of the Jewish Leaders

John 7:45–53

⁴⁵The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him?” ⁴⁶The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!” ⁴⁷The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you? ⁴⁸Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees? ⁴⁹But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is accursed.” ⁵⁰Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them, ⁵¹“Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?” ⁵²They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.” ⁵³Everyone went to his own house,