007:042 Has not the Scripture declared that the Christ is to come
of the family of David and from Bethlehem, David's village?"
007:043 So there was a violent dissension among the people on His account.
007:044 Some of them wanted at once to arrest Him, but no one laid
hands upon Him.
007:045 Meanwhile the officers returned to the High Priests and Pharisees,
who asked them, "Why have you not brought him?"
007:046 "No mere man has ever spoken as this man speaks,"
said the officers.
007:047 "Are *you* deluded too?" replied the Pharisees;
007:048 "has any one of the Rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him?
007:049 But this rabble who understand nothing about the Law are accursed!"
007:050 Nicodemus interposed—he who had formerly gone to Jesus,
being himself one of them.
007:051 "Does our Law," he asked, "judge a man without first hearing
what he has to say and ascertaining what his conduct is?"