Now the feast of the Passover and of Unleavened Bread was two days later. So the high priests and scribes kept looking for some way to arrest Him by stratagem and have Him put to death,

So the high priests and the scribes continued to seek how they might put Him to death, for they were afraid of the people.

On the next day the leading members of the council, the elders, and the scribes,

So they obeyed, and about the break of day they went into the temple square and began to teach. The high priest and his party arrived and called a meeting of the council and the whole senate of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison to have the men brought in.

What

So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see, you cannot help it at all; the whole world has gone off after Him!"

and repeated, "What shall we do with these men? For it is evident to everybody living in Jerusalem that an unmistakable wonder-work has been done by them; and we cannot deny it.

When the military commander of the temple square and the high priest heard this, they were utterly at a loss to know how this might turn out.

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So they met and held a consultation with the elders, and bribed the soldiers with a large sum of money,

They took the man who had been blind to the Pharisees.