44 Some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.
45 Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him back with you?”
46 The officers replied, “No one ever spoke like this man!”
47 Then the Pharisees answered, “You haven’t been deceived too, have you?
48 None of the rulers or the Pharisees have believed in him, have they?
49 But this rabble who do not know the law are accursed!”
50 Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus before and who was one of the rulers, said,