But this crowd, who do not know the law, are accursed.”
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 shrewd in their own sight!
who say, “Keep to yourself, do not come near me, for I am set apart from you.” These are a smoke in my nostrils, a fire that burns all the day.
Have any of the authorities or of the Pharisees believed in him?
Nicodemus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them,
They answered him, “You were born in utter sin, and would you teach us?” And they cast him out.
Some of the Pharisees near him heard this, and they said to him, “Are we also blind?”