40 Some of the people therefore, when they heard these words, were saying, “This certainly is the Prophet.” 41 Others were saying, “This is the Christ.” Still others were saying, “Surely the Christ is not going to come from Galilee, is He? 42 “Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?” 43 So a division occurred in the crowd because of Him. 44 Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid hands on Him.
45 The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why did you not bring Him?” 46 The officers answered, “Never has a man spoken the way this man speaks.” 47 The Pharisees then answered them, “You have not also been led astray, have you? 48 “No one of the rulers or Pharisees has believed in Him, has he? 49 “But this crowd which does not know the Law is accursed.” 50 Nicodemus (he who came to Him before, being one of them) said to them, 51 “Our Law does not judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, does it?” 52 They answered him, “You are not also from Galilee, are you? Search, and see that no prophet arises out of Galilee.” 53 [Everyone went to his home.
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2 comments:
The learned men had their eyes blinded, only Nicodemus understood who Jesus was. The Chief Priests ridicule those who don't believe as they do. In reading this scripture, its surprising how many believe, are these the same ones who get carried away with the crowd and shout give us Barabus or were they not in the crowd because they feared the Pharises and Chief Priests?
As I read, I thought about that too. Sometimes they were for him when they saw the miracles and then at other times questioned when they were with another group.
The Pharisees frequently make statements about the Law and what it says; however, Nicodemus reminds them of what the Law says about judging someone without hearing from that person.
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