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John - ch 7 v 41 - 53
- Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?
- Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David,1 and from Bethlehem,2 the village where David was?"
- So there arose a division in the multitude because of him.
- Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.
- The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?"
- The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!"
- The Pharisees therefore answered them, "You aren't also led astray, are you?
- Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?
- But this multitude that doesn't know the law is accursed."
- Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,
- "Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"
- They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.3"
- Everyone went to his own house,
- 2 Samuel 7:12
- Micah 5:2
- See Isaiah 9:1 and Matthew 4:13-16.
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