“When they ought to have asked what He spake, and to have marveled at the words, they do not so, (knowing that they might have been captivated,) but reason with them from a very foolish argument; "Wherefore," saith one, "hath none of the rulers believed on Him?" Dost thou then make this a charge against Christ, tell me…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — Homily on the Gospel of John 52
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48Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?
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46The officers answered, Never man spake like this man.
47Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived?
— John 7:48 —
49But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.
50Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,)