“Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
John 7:51 in context
John 7:48–53
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Have any of the rulers or any of the Pharisees believed in him?
49
But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is cursed.”
50
Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,
51
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“Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”
52
They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”
53
Everyone went to his own house,
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