48. ‘Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him?
49. No! But this mob that knows nothing of the law – there is a curse on them.’
50. Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who was one of their own number, asked,
51. ‘Does our law condemn a man without first hearing him to find out what he has been doing?’
52. They replied, ‘Are you from Galilee, too? Look into it, and you will find that a prophet does not come out of Galilee.’ [The earliest manuscripts and many other ancient witnesses do not have John 7:53 – 8:11. A few manuscripts include these verses, wholly or in part, after John 7:36, John 21:25, Luke 21:38 or Luke 24:53.]