John 7:45-8:1

Christian Standard Bible

Debate over Jesus’s Claims

⁴⁵ Then the servants^(A) came to the chief priests^(B) and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring him?”

⁴⁶ The servants answered, “No man ever spoke like this!” ^[a](C)

⁴⁷ Then the Pharisees responded to them, “Are you fooled^(D) too? ⁴⁸ Have any of the rulers^(E) or Pharisees believed in him? ⁴⁹ But this crowd, which doesn’t know the law, is accursed.”

⁵⁰ Nicodemus^(F)—the one who came to him previously and who was one of them—said to them, ⁵¹ “Our law doesn’t judge a man before it hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it?” ^(G)

⁵² “You aren’t from Galilee^(H) too, are you?” they replied. “Investigate and you will see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”^(I)

[The earliest mss do not include 7:53–8:11.]

[⁵³ Then each one went to his house.^[b] 8 ¹ But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.^(J)