Division and the Failure to Arrest Jesus

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So many of the people, when they heard this saying, said, Of a trueth this is that Prophet.

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Other saide, This is that Christ: and some said, But shall that Christ come out of Galile?

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Saith not the Scripture that that Christ shall come of the seede of Dauid, and out of the towne of Beth-leem, where Dauid was?

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So was there dissension among the people for him.

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And some of them would haue taken him, but no man layde handes on him.

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Then came the officers to the hie Priests and Pharises, and they said vnto them, Why haue ye not brought him?

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The officers answered, Neuer man spake like this man.

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Then answered them the Pharises, Are yee also deceiued?

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Doeth any of the rulers, or of the Pharises beleeue in him?

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But this people, which know not the Law, are cursed.

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Nicodemus said vnto them, (he that came to Iesus by night, and was one of them.)

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Doth our Law iudge a man before it heare him, and knowe what he hath done?

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They answered, and said vnto him, Art thou also of Galile? Searche and looke: for out of Galile ariseth no Prophet.

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And euery man wet vnto his owne house.