But this crowd, which does not know the Law of Moses, [and especially its oral traditions], is cursed [by God].”
Some Pharisees, who were with Jesus, heard [Him say] these things, and replied, “Are we blind, too?”
They replied to the beggar, “You were born entirely in sins [i.e., you have been a sinner all your life], and you are [trying] to teach us?” Then they threw him out [of the synagogue. See verse 22].
Have any of the authorities or Pharisees believed in him?
[Now] Nicodemus (being a leading Pharisee, and the one who went to talk to Jesus one night), said to them,