45 The guards returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked, "Why didn’t you bring him?"
46 The guards answered, "No one has ever spoken the way he does."
47 The Pharisees replied, "Have you too been deceived?
48 Have any of the leaders believed in him? Has any Pharisee?
49 No, only this crowd, which doesn’t know the Law. And they are under God’s curse!"
50 Nicodemus, who was one of them and had come to Jesus earlier, said,
51 "Our Law doesn’t judge someone without first hearing him and learning what he is doing, does it?"