Now the Passover and Unleavened Bread were two days away; and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to seize Him by stealth and kill Him;

The chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they might put Him to death; for they were afraid of the people.

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

Upon hearing 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

So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are not doing any good; look, the world has gone after Him.”

saying, “What shall we do with these men? For the fact that a noteworthy miracle has taken place through them is apparent to all who live in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.

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

General references

And 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 was formerly blind.