45 The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn`t you bring him?"
46 The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!"
47 The Pharisees therefore answered them, "Are you also led astray?
48 Has any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?
49 But this cursed multitude doesn`t know the law."
50 Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,
51 "Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"