Jesus is relentless in His purpose to save souls. He has called people to Himself before (7:37-38) and we read of no one who came to Him, but He doesn’t give up. Instead, He continues on with another invitation for sinners to follow Him. He is the light of the world who rescues men from darkness and puts His light of life to reside within them. In this sermon, we also work through the textual critical issue regarding the intervening passage (7:53-8:11), and that the Bible is reliable and that God has not allowed His truth to be lost through the manual copying of manuscripts.

John 7:40-52
Some of the people therefore, when they heard these words, were saying, “This certainly is the Prophet.” Others were saying, “This is the Christ.” Still others were saying, “Surely the Christ is not going to come from Galilee, is He? Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?” So a division occurred in the crowd because of Him. Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid hands on Him.
The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why did you not bring Him?” The officers answered, “Never has a man spoken the way this man speaks.” The Pharisees then answered them, “You have not also been led astray, have you? No one of the rulers or Pharisees has believed in Him, has he? But this crowd which does not know the Law is accursed.” Nicodemus (he who came to Him before, being one of them) said to them, “Our Law does not judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, does it?” They answered him, “You are not also from Galilee, are you? Search, and see that no prophet arises out of Galilee.”