In Context

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

46 The officers answered, 'Never so spake man — as this man.'

47 The Pharisees, therefore, answered them, 'Have ye also been led astray?

48 did any one out of the rulers believe in him? or out of the Pharisees?

49 but this multitude, that is not knowing the law, is accursed.'

50 Nicodemus saith unto them — he who came by night unto him — being one of them,

John 7:48 in Other Translations