John 7:45-52
The officers then went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why did you not bring him?”
The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!”
The Pharisees answered them, “Are you led astray, you also? Have any of the authorities or of the Pharisees believed in him? But this crowd, who do not know the law, are accursed.”
Nicode’mus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them, “Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?”
They replied, “Are you from Galilee too? Search and you will see that no prophet is to rise from Galilee.”

Homily:

What a bold statement – “Search and you will see that no prophet is to rise from Galilee.”

We make such bold statements daily with our thoughts, words and actions. Dismissing whole tribes, families, countries, religions, races, and people as irrelevant. Passing judgment on their destiny. Missing out on the gifts God has sent to us through them.

“Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?”

Is it even our place to judge?

“A person may think their own ways are right, but the Lord weighs the heart.” – Proverbs 21:2