In Context

40 Many, therefore out of the multitude, having heard the word, said, 'This is truly the Prophet;'

41 others said, 'This is the Christ;' and others said, 'Why, out of Galilee doth the Christ come?

42 Did not the Writing say, that out of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem — the village where David was — the Christ doth come?'

43 A division, therefore, arose among the multitude because of him.

44 And certain of them were willing to seize him, but no one laid hands on him;

45 the officers came, therefore, unto the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, 'Wherefore did ye not bring him?'

John 7:43 in Other Translations