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45 The (A)officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why did you not bring Him?” 46 The (B)officers answered, “(C)Never has a man spoken like this!” 47 The Pharisees then answered them, “(D)Have you also been led astray? 48 (E)Have any of (F)the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him? 49 But this crowd which does not know the Law is accursed.” 50 (G)Nicodemus (he who came to Him before), being one of them, *said to them, 51 (H)Does our Law judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing?” 52 They answered him, “(I)Are you also from Galilee? Search and see that no prophet arises out of Galilee.” 53 [a][Everyone went to his home.

An Adulteress Forgiven

But Jesus went to (J)the Mount of Olives.

Footnotes

  1. John 7:53 Later mss add the story of the adulterous woman, numbering it as John 7:53-8:11

Unbelief of the Jewish Leaders

45 Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and the Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring him in?”

46 “No one ever spoke the way this man does,”(A) the guards replied.

47 “You mean he has deceived you also?”(B) the Pharisees retorted. 48 “Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him?(C) 49 No! But this mob that knows nothing of the law—there is a curse on them.”

50 Nicodemus,(D) 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.”(E)


[The earliest manuscripts and many other ancient witnesses do not have John 7:53—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, but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.(F)