So opinion about Jesus was "divided" () - a arose, "whence our word ‘schism’, meaning 'a serious and possibly violent division'" is derived. This division extended to the issue of whether Jesus should be arrested: "some of them" - "i.e. of those who refused to accord him Messianic reception because he had not commenced his ministry at Bethlehem, and had not flaunted his Davidic ancestry" - wanted to arrest Him, but "no one laid a hand on him" (). The chief priests and the Pharisees questioned why Jesus had not been detained - in they had dispatched officers for this purpose - and the returning officers replied that "No man ever spoke like this Man" (). Ellicott states that "some of the oldest manuscripts, including the Vatican, have a shorter text, "Never man spake thus"; but the longer reading is to be preferred", with the additional words , "as this man speaks", which are retained by the Textus Receptus. The officers "were so impressed and awed with what 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: