Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.

There was a man from the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

When Jesus knew that the Pharisees heard He was making and baptizing more disciples than John

The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about Him, so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple police to arrest Him.

Then the temple police came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why haven’t you brought Him?”

Then the Pharisees responded to them: “Are you fooled too?

Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?

Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery, making her stand in the center.

So the Pharisees said to Him, “You are testifying about Yourself. Your testimony is not valid.”

They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees.

So again the Pharisees asked him how he received his sight.

“He put mud on my eyes,” he told them. “I washed and I can see.”

Therefore some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He doesn’t keep the Sabbath!” But others were saying, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there was a division among them.

Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things and asked Him, “We aren’t blind too, are we?”

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

So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we going to do since this man does many signs?

The chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where He was, he should report it so they could arrest Him.

Then the Pharisees said to one another, “You see? You’ve accomplished nothing. Look—the world has gone after Him!”

Nevertheless, many did believe in Him even among the rulers, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, so they would not be banned from the synagogue.

So Judas took a company of soldiers and some temple police from the chief priests and the Pharisees and came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.