John 7:52
They answered and said to him, Art thou also from Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
51Doth our law judge any man before it heareth him, and knoweth what he doeth?
53And every man went to his own house.
Cross References
Genesis 19:9And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one man came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: Now will we deal worse with thee than with them. And they pressed hard upon the man, Lot, and came near to break the door.
1 Kings 22:24But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak to thee?
Isaiah 9:1Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her distress, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
John 1:46And Nathanael said to him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith to him, Come and see.
John 9:34They answered and said to him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? and they cast him out.
Matthew Henry on John 7:46-53
The Officers' Testimony of Christ. 45 Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him? 46 The officers answered, Never man spake like this man. 47 Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived? 48 Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? 49 But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed. 50 Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,) 51 Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him,… Read the whole commentary →