“There is nothing clearer, nothing simpler than the truth, if we deal not perversely; just as (on the other hand) if we deal perversely, nothing is more difficult. For behold, the Scribes and Pharisees, who seemed forsooth to be wiser than other men, being ever with Christ for the sake of plotting against Him, and beho…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — Homily on the Gospel of John 52
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45Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him?
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43So there was a division among the people because of him.
44And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.
— John 7:45 —
46The officers answered, Never man spake like this man.
47Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived?