45. Venerunt ergo ministri ad 45. The ministers therefore pontifices et pharisaeos. Et came to the chief priests and dixerunt eis illi: Quare non the Pharisees. And they said adduxistis illum? to them: Why have you not brought him? 46. Responderunt ministri: 46. The ministers answered: Numquam sic locutus est homo, Never did man speak like this sicut hic homo. man. 47. Responderunt ergo eis 47. The Pharisees therefore pharisaei; numquid et vos answered them: Are you also seducti estis? seduced? 48. Numquid ex principibus 48. Hath any one of the rulers aliquis credidit in eum, aut believed in him, or of the ex pharisaeis? Pharisees? 49. Sed turba haec, quae non 49. But this multitude that novit legem maledicti sunt. knoweth not the law, are accursed. 45‐49. The officers, who had been sent a few days before to apprehend Christ (see above, 14, 32), or perhaps other officers, return and bear favourable testimony to Him, for which they are rebuked by the Pharisees. 50. Dixit Nicodemus ad eos, 50. Nicodemus said to them, he ille qui venit ad eum nocte, that came to him by night, who qui unus erat ex ipsis. was one of them. 51. Numquid lex nostra iudicat 51. Doth our law judge any hominem nisi prius audierit ab man, unless it first hear him, ipso, et cognoverit quid and know what he doth? faciat? 52. Responderunt, et dixerunt 52. They answered and said to ei: Numquid et tu Galilaeus him: Art thou also a Galilean? es? Scrutare scripturas, et Search the scriptures, and see vide quia a Galilaea propheta that out of Galilee a prophet non surgit. riseth not. 50‐52. Nicodemus (iii. 1, 2) interposes in Christ’s favour; to whom the members of the Sanhedrim impatiently reply that no prophet had ever arisen in Galilee, thus disposing, as they thought, of Christ’s claim to be a prophet. But they were wrong in their assumption that Christ had been born in Galilee (see Luke ii. 4‐7), and equally wrong in the conclusion they drew that, being a Galilean, He could not be a prophet. For the Sacred Scriptures had nowhere said that a prophet could not arise in Galilee; nay, they prove that the prophet Jonas was a Galilean, 4 Kings, xiv. 25. 53. Et reversi sunt 53. And every man returned to unusquisque in domum suam. his own house. 53. See next chapter. CHAPTER VIII. 1‐2. *Christ having spent the night on the Mount of Olives, returns in the morning to the temple and teaches.* 3‐11. *The story of the woman taken in adultery.* 12‐20. *Discourse of Christ with the Pharisees in the treasury.* 21‐29. *He upbraids them for their incredulity, and foretells His own crucifixion.*