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And so there was a strife among the people about Him.

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Some of them wanted to seize Him;

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but no one laid hands on Him.

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So the ministers returned to the chief priests and the Pharisees, and these said to them, "Why did you not bring Him?" The ministers answered, "Never did a man speak like this man."

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And the Pharisees said unto them, Have ye also been deceived?

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Did any of the rulers or Pharisees believe in Him? But this people is ignorant of the law;

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Cursed is he.

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Nicodemus, who came to him by night, being one of them, said to them, "Does our law judge a man, unless they first hear him, and know what he will do?"

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And they said to him, Are you not also of Galilee?

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look and see that there is no prophet coming from Galilee.

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And they all went home.

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And in the morning he came to the temple again, and all the people went to Him. He sat down and taught them.

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Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman who had been taken in adultery, and having placed her in the midst, they said to Him, "Teacher! this woman was taken in adultery;

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and Moses commanded us in the law to stone such people: What say thou? And they said these things, tempting Him, that they might find something to accuse Him.