7 45 The temple police came back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked, 'Why have you not brought him?' 7 46 'No man', they answered, 'ever spoke as this man speaks.' 7 47 The Pharisees retorted, 'Have you too been misled? 7 48 Is there a single one of our rulers who has believed in him, or of the Pharisees? 7 49 As for this rabble, which cares nothing for the Law, a curse is on them.' 7 50 Then one of their number, Nicodemus (the man who had once visited Jesus), intervened. 7 51 'Does our law', he asked them, 'permit us to pass judgement on a man unless we have first given him a hearing and learned the facts?' 7 52 'Are you a Galilean too?' they retorted. 'Study the scriptures and you will find that prophets do not come from Galilee.'