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 John7:53—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.]
53. Then they all went home,