But these people who have no knowledge of the law are cursed.
Give ear then to the word of the Lord, you men of pride, the rulers of this people in Jerusalem:
Cursed are those who seem wise to themselves, and who take pride in their knowledge!
Who say, Keep away, do not come near me, for fear that I make you holy: these are a smoke in my nose, a fire burning all day.
Have any of the rulers belief in him, or any one of the Pharisees?
Nicodemushe who had come to Jesus before, being himself one of themsaid to them,
Their answer was: You came to birth through sin; do you make yourself our teacher? And they put him out of the Synagogue.
These words came to the ears of the Pharisees who were with him and they said to him, Are we, then, blind?