<p>7:52- see on Jn. 1:46.</p><p><i>They answered and said to him: Are you also of Galilee? Search the scrolls and you will see, that no prophet is to rise from Galilee</i>- They were in fact wrong, for Jonah a great type of the Lord Jesus was from Galilee. But the record has more spiritual culture than to point out this obvious error. We are left to perceive it, and the silence regarding their ignorance becomes the more powerfully deafening exactly because the obvious point is not made. The Jewish leadership were trying to paint the Lord as supported only by some of the Galilean pilgrims who had come up to that feast of tabernacles. Their damaged consciences are revealed in their over sensitivity to merely being asked to apply their own law to the case of Jesus of Nazareth. They jump to the conclusion that Nicodemus is also on the Lord's side and must therefore also be Galilean. Recall how Peter is unmasked as one of the Lord's followers because of his Galilean accent.</p>