It was now two days before the Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth, and kill him.

And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to kill him, for they feared the people.

On the next day, their rulers and elders and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem;

And when they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak and began to teach. Now when the high priest and his associates came, they called the Council together, even all the Senate of the sons of Israel, and sent orders to the prison house for them to be brought.

What

The Pharisees then said to one another, "You see that you are accomplishing nothing. Look, The world has gone after him!"

saying, "What shall we do with these men? For that a noteworthy miracle has been performed through them is apparent to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.

Now when the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests heard these words, they were much perplexed about them, wondering what would come of this.

General references

When they had assembled with the elders and consulted together, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,

They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind.