Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

Now when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to arrest him.

The officers then went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, "Why did you not bring him?"

The Pharisees answered them, "Are you deceived, you also?

Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him?

Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought to him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst,

The Pharisees then said to him, "You are bearing witness of yourself; your testimony is not true."

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

Then the Pharisees also asked him again how he had received his sight. He said to them, "He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and I see."

Some of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" And there was a division among them.

Then some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this, and said to him, "Are we blind also?"

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

Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we to do? For this man performs many signs.

Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, so that they might arrest him.

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

Nevertheless even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue;

So Judas, having received a detachment of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.