41. Others said, “He is the Messiah.” Still others asked, “How can the Messiah come from Galilee?
42. Does not Scripture say that the Messiah will come from David’s descendants and from Bethlehem, the town where David lived?”
43. Thus the people were divided because of Jesus.
44. Some wanted to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.
45. Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and the Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring him in?”
46. “No one ever spoke the way this man does,” the guards replied.
47. “You mean he has deceived you also?” the Pharisees retorted.
48. “Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him?
49. No! But this mob that knows nothing of the law—there is a curse on them.”