Division and the Failure to Arrest Jesus

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Some of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, This is of a truth the prophet.

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Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, What, doth the Christ come out of Galilee?

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Hath not the scripture said that the Christ cometh of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?

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So there arose a division in the multitude because of him.

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And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.

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The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why did ye not bring him?

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The officers answered, Never man so spake.

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The Pharisees therefore answered them, Are ye also led astray?

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Hath any of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees?

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But this multitude that knoweth not the law are accursed.

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Nicodemus saith unto them (he that came to him before, being one of them),

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Doth our law judge a man, except it first hear from himself and know what he doeth?

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They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and see that out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.

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[And they went every man unto his own house: