Division and the Failure to Arrest Jesus

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Many, therefore out of the multitude, having heard the word, said, `This is truly the Prophet;'

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others said, `This is the Christ;' and others said, `Why, out of Galilee doth the Christ come?

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Did not the Writing say, that out of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem--the village where David was--the Christ doth come?'

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A division, therefore, arose among the multitude because of him.

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And certain of them were willing to seize him, but no one laid hands on him;

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the officers came, therefore, unto the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, `Wherefore did ye not bring him?'

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The officers answered, `Never so spake man--as this man.'

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The Pharisees, therefore, answered them, `Have ye also been led astray?

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did any one out of the rulers believe in him? or out of the Pharisees?

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but this multitude, that is not knowing the law, is accursed.'

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Nicodemus saith unto them--he who came by night unto him--being one of them,

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`Doth our law judge the man, if it may not hear from him first, and know what he doth?'

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They answered and said to him, `Art thou also out of Galilee? search and see, that a prophet out of Galilee hath not risen;'

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and each one went on to his house, but Jesus went on to the mount of the Olives.