Division and the Failure to Arrest Jesus

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Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, “This is truly the Prophet.”

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Others said, “This is the Messiah.” But some said, “What, does the Messiah come out of Galilee?

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Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Messiah comes 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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Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.

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The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him?”

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The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!”

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The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you?

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Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

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But this multitude that doesn’t know the Torah is accursed.”

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Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,

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“Does our Torah judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”

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They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”

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Everyone went to his own house,