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⁴⁰群眾中有些人聽了這些話，便說：「這人真是那位先知。」

⁴⁰Of that multitude therefore, when they had heard these words of his, some said: This is the prophet indeed.

⁴¹另有些人說：「這人是默西亞。」但也有人說：「難道默西亞能來自加里肋亞嗎？

⁴¹Others said: This is the Christ. But some said: Doth the Christ come out of Galilee?

⁴²經上不是說：默西亞要出自達味的後裔，來自達味出生的村莊白冷嗎？」

⁴²Doth not the scripture say: That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem the town where David was?

⁴³因此，為了耶穌的緣故，在群眾中起了紛爭。

⁴³So there arose a dissension among the people because of him.

⁴⁴他們中有些人願捉拿他，但誰也沒有向他下手。

⁴⁴And some of them would have apprehended him: but no man laid hands on him.

⁴⁵差役回到司祭長和法利塞人那裡；司祭長和法利塞人問他們說：「為什麼你們沒有把他帶來？」

⁴⁵The ministers therefore came to the chief priests and the Pharisees. And they said to them: Why have you not brought him?

⁴⁶差役回答說：「從來沒有一個人如此講話，像這人講話一樣。」

⁴⁶The ministers answered: Never did man speak like this man.

⁴⁷法利塞人遂向他們說：「難道你們也受了煽惑嗎？

⁴⁷The Pharisees therefore answered them: Are you also seduced?

⁴⁸首長中或法利塞人中，難道有人信仰了他嗎？

⁴⁸Hath any one of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

⁴⁹但是，這些不明白法律的群眾，是可詛咒的！」

⁴⁹But this multitude, that knoweth not the law, are accursed.

⁵⁰他們中有一個，即先前曾來到耶穌那裡的尼苛德摩，遂向他們說：

⁵⁰Nicodemus said to them, (he that came to him by night, who was one of them:)

⁵¹「如果不先聽取人的口供，和查明他所作的事，難道我們的法律就許定他的罪麼？」

⁵¹Doth our law judge any man, unless it first hear him, and know what he doth?

⁵²他們回答他說：「難道你也是出自加里肋亞麼？你去查考，你就能知道：從加里肋亞不會出先知的。」

⁵²They answered, and said to him: Art thou also a Galilean? Search the scriptures, and see, that out of Galilee a prophet riseth not.

⁵³然後，他們就各自回家去了。

⁵³And every man returned to his own house.