Among the Pharisees there was a man named Nicodemus, a leader among the Jews.

So when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had been told that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John??2 though it was not Jesus himself who baptized them, but his disciples??3 he left Judea and went back again to Galilee.

The Pharisees heard the people saying these things about him in whispers, and the high priests and the Pharisees sent attendants to arrest him.

The attendants went back to the high priests and Pharisees, and they said to the attendants, "Why have you not brought him?"

The Pharisees answered, "Have you been imposed upon too?

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

The Pharisees said to him, "You are testifying to yourself. Your testimony is not true."

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

So once more the Pharisees asked him how he had become able to see, and he said to them, "He put some clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and I can see."

Then some of the Pharisees said, "This man does not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a sinful man show such signs as this?" And there was a division of opinion among them.

Some Pharisees who were present heard this, and they said to him, "Then are we blind too?"

but some of them went back to the Pharisees and told them what he had done.

Then the high priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the council, and they said, "What are we to do about the fact that this man is showing so many signs?

For the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out where he was should let them know, so that they might arrest him.

So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see, you cannot do anything! The whole world has run after him!"

Yet for all that, even among the leading men, many came to believe in him, but on account of the Pharisees they would not acknowledge it, for fear of being excluded from the synagogues,

So Judas got out the garrison and some attendants from the high priests and Pharisees, and came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.