Now the messengers were of the sect of the Pharisees, and they asked him,

Now one of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, was there, a ruler of the Jews:

Jesus therefore knowing the Pharisees had heard that he made more disciples, and baptized more than John,

The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him; and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to take him.

Then the officers returned to the chief priest and Pharisees,

The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why did ye not bring him?

The Pharisees therefore answered them, Are ye also led astray?

Hath any of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees?

[Now] Nicodemus (being a leading Pharisee, and the one who went to talk to Jesus one night), said to them,

And the scribes and the Pharisees bring a woman taken in adultery; and having set her in the midst,

The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest witness of thyself; thy witness is not true.

They bring to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind.

Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. And he said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and I see.

Some therefore of the Pharisees said, This man is not from God, because he keepeth not the sabbath. But others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such signs? And there was division among them.

But these Jews [i.e., Pharisees] did not believe that the man had been blind and had received his sight back until they called his parents

The Pharisees said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he restore your sight?"

The man replied, "Is not that strange! You do not know where he came from and yet he restored my sight! [Note: The next sentence may be the beggar stating the Pharisees' argument. See verse 24].

Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said unto him, Are we also blind?

But some of them went to the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus had done.

upon this the chief priests and the Pharisees being assembled in council, said, what shall we do? for this man performs many miracles.

now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had publish'd an order, that if any man knew where he was, he should give information in order to have him seized.

the Pharisees therefore said among themselves, don't you perceive we lose ground? you see what a world of followers attend him.

nevertheless there were many even among the chief rulers, who believed on him; but they did not own it publickly for fear the Pharisees should excommunicate them.

Judas, therefore, having taken the band and officers out of the chief priests and Pharisees, doth come thither with torches and lamps, and weapons;