John 7:49-51

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁴⁹ But this crowd, which does not know the law—they are accursed.’ ⁵⁰ Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus^[a] before, and who was one of them, asked, ⁵¹ ‘Our law does not judge people without first giving them a hearing to find out what they are doing, does it?’