45 When the temple police returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, they were asked, “Why didn't you bring Jesus here?”
46 They answered, “No one has ever spoken like that man!”
47 The Pharisees said to them, “Have you also been fooled?
48 Not one of the chief priests or the Pharisees has faith in him.
49 And these people who don't know the Law are under God's curse anyway.”
50 Nicodemus was there at the time. He was a member of the council, and was the same one who had earlier come to see Jesus. He said,
51 “Our Law doesn't let us condemn people before we hear what they have to say. We cannot judge them before we know what they have done.”