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John 7:52 - The Pharisee's unknowing self-fulfilment of Scripture

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John 7:47-52 47  Then the Pharisees answered them, “Are you also deceived?  48  Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in Him?  49  But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.”  50  Nicodemus (he who came to Jesus by night, being one of them) said to them, 51  “Does our law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing?”  52  They answered and said to him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and look, for no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.” The Pharisees were constantly testing Jesus against the Scriptures to try and find fault in Him. Of course they were never able to find any faults and usually their 'testing' resulted in their own shortcomings being brought to light and the Scriptures being fulfilled by the Lord's teaching.  In John 7:52 the Pharisees are dismissive of Christ's teachings by remarking that  " no prophet has arisen   out of Galilee.”   Preachers often say that the reason the Pharisees said this w