he said that they dared not take him"; the Pharisees said they were "deceived" (), suggesting that none of the rulers - "the members of the Sanhedrin, who were supposed to have control over the religious rites and doctrines of the nation - had believed. The evangelist reminds his readers that Nicodemus, "one of them" (i.e. one of the Sanhedrin) had met Jesus before (). Nicodemus reminds his colleagues: Verse 51"Does our law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing?" This is reminder of the words in :You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike () The Sanhedrin advises Nicodemus that he should study the scriptures further: Verse 52They answered and said to him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search and look, for no prophet has arisen out of Galilee."Pericope Adulterae (7:53–8:11) Verse 53And everyone went to his own house.'' At this point, the division of the text into chapters (attributed to Stephen Langton) brings chapter 7 to its close, with the words "Then they all went home". Chapter 8 opens with the words "[b]ut Jesus went to the Mount of Olives". Young's Literal Translation and the Jerusalem Bible both unite these phrases as a single sentence. Bengel argues for Jesus' visit to the Mount of Olives to be treated as part of chapter 7. The Pulpit Commentary queries whether the departure home refers only to the breaking up of the Sanhedrin (with Barnes) or to "the scattering of the crowd or the return of the pilgrims to Galilee". The pilgrims' return home at the end of the Feast of Tabernacles provides a natural end to the chapter, but "a very improbable consequence of verse 52". The pericope commencing with John 7:53 is considered canonical, but not found in most of the early Greek Gospel manuscripts. It is not in P66 or in P75, both of which have been assigned to the late 100s or early 200s. Nor is it in two important manuscripts produced in the early/mid 300s, Sinaiticus and Vaticanus. The first surviving Greek manuscript to contain the pericope is the Latin/Greek diglot Codex Bezae, produced in the 400s or 500s (but displaying a form of text which has affinities with "Western" readings used in the 100s and 200s). Codex Bezae is also the earliest surviving Latin manuscript to contain it. Out of 23