Sawyer(i)
40 Then some of the multitude hearing these words, said, This is truly the prophet;
41 others said, This is the Christ; others said, [No]; for does the Christ come from Galilee?
42 Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?
43 Then there was a division among the multitude on his account;
44 and some of them wished to take him by force, but no one laid hands on him.
45 (10:7) Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, Why have you not brought him?
46 The officers answered, A man never spoke thus.
47 The Pharisees answered them, Are you also deceived?
48 Has any one of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees?
49 But this multitude which know not the law are accursed.
50 Nicodemus, he that came to him, being one of them, said to them,
51 Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he does?
52 They answered and said to him, Are you also from Galilee? search and see; for no prophet is raised up from Galilee.
53 (10:8) [An early interpolation, but probably true]. And every man went to his own house;