Jesus was causing great confusion in people's minds. They were really puzzled as to His real identity. They were divided between their direct experience of what He did and said and their interpretations of what the Scriptures seemed to say about the Christ, the Messiah. Even the police, sent to arrest Him, had come back empty-handed to their superiors. When asked why, all they could say was: "There has never been anybody who spoke like him." How could they arrest such a person? But the authorities knew better, they were the experts. Nicodemus, himself a Pharisee, is brushed aside when he suggests withholding judgement. The case is closed with the words: "Prophets do not come from Galilee." How often we, too, are blocked from hearing God's word spoken to us because our prejudices and preconceived ideas block our being aware of Jesus' presence? How many times have we failed to hear the voice of Jesus because we had decided He could not speak to me through this person or this situation?