42. “Did not the Scripture say that the Messiah comes from the seed of Dawiḏ and from the village of Bĕyth Leḥem, where Dawiḏ was?”
43. So a division came about among the people because of Him.
44. And some of them wished to take Him, but no one laid hands on Him.
45. The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees. And they said to them, “Why did you not bring Him?”
46. The officers answered, “Never has any man spoken like this Man!”
47. The Pharisees, therefore, answered them, “Have you also been led astray?
48. “Has anyone of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in Him?
49. “But this crowd that does not know the Torah is accursed.”
50. Naḵdimon – he who came to יהושע by night, being one of them – said to them,
51. “Does our Torah judge the man unless it hears first from him and knows what he is doing?”
52. They answered and said to him, “Are you also from Galil? Search and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galil.”
53. And each one went to his own house.