44 And certain of them were willing to seize him, but no one  laid hands on him;
         
                                
                        45 the officers came, therefore, unto the chief priests and  Pharisees, and they said to them, `Wherefore did ye not bring  him?`
         
                                
                        46 The officers answered, `Never so spake man -- as this man.`
         
                                
                        47 The Pharisees, therefore, answered them, `Have ye also been  led astray?
         
                                
                        48 did any one out of the rulers believe in him? or out of the  Pharisees?
         
                                
                        49 but this multitude, that is not knowing the law, is  accursed.`
         
                                
                        50 Nicodemus saith unto them -- he who came by night unto him  -- being one of them,