45 When the guards went back, the chief priests and Pharisees asked them, “Why did you not bring him?”
46 The guards answered, “Nobody has ever talked the way this man does!”
47 “Did he fool you, too?” the Pharisees asked them.
48 “Have you ever known one of the authorities or one Pharisee to believe in him?
49 This crowd does not know the Law of Moses, so they are under God's curse!”
50 One of the Pharisees there was Nicodemus, the man who had gone to see Jesus before. He said to the others,
51 “According to our Law we cannot condemn people before hearing them and finding out what they have done.”