No! But this mob that knows nothing of the law—there is a curse on them.”
Some Pharisees who were with him heard him say this and asked, “What? Are we blind too?”
To this they replied, “You were steeped in sin at birth; how dare you lecture us!” And they threw him out.
who say, ‘Keep away; don’t come near me, for I am too sacred for you!’ Such people are smoke in my nostrils, a fire that keeps burning all day.
Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem.
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.
“Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him?
Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who was one of their own number, asked,