45 Then the temple police came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why haven’t you brought Him? ”
46 The police answered, “No man ever spoke like this! ”
47 Then the Pharisees responded to them: “Are you fooled too?
48 Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?
49 But this crowd, which doesn’t know the law, is accursed! ”
50 Nicodemus — the one who came to Him previously, being one of them — said to them,
51 “Our law doesn’t judge a man before it hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it? ”