45. The Temple guards went back to the leading priests and the Pharisees. The priests and the Pharisees asked, “Why didn’t you bring Jesus?”
46. The Temple guards answered, “The things he says are greater than the words of any man!”
47. The Pharisees answered, “So Jesus has fooled you too!
48. Have any of the leaders or the Pharisees believed in him? No!
49. But those people, who know nothing about the law, are under God’s curse!”
50. But Nicodemus was there in that group. He was the one who had gone to see Jesus before. Nicodemus said,