50 Nicodemus, the one who came to him previously—who was one of them—said to them, 51 “Our law does not condemn a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, does it?”[a] 52 They answered and said to him, “You are not also from Galilee, are you?[b] Investigate and see that a prophet does not arise from Galilee!”

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Footnotes

  1. John 7:51 *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “does it
  2. John 7:52 *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “are you