(And they had been sent from the Pharisees.)

Now there was a man of the Pharisees {whose name was} Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

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

The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these [things] about him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers in order {to take him into custody }.

So the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees. And they said to them, "{Why} did you not bring him?"

Then the Pharisees replied to them, "You have not also been deceived, [have you]?

{None} of the rulers or of the Pharisees have believed in him, [have they]?

Now the scribes and the Pharisees brought to him a woman caught in adultery. And standing her in [their] midst,

So the Pharisees said to him, "You testify concerning yourself! Your testimony is not true."

They brought him--the one formerly blind--to the Pharisees.

So the Pharisees also were asking him again how he received sight. And he said to them, "He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and I see."

So some of the Pharisees were saying, "This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath!" Others were saying, "How can a man [who is] a sinner perform such signs?" And there was a division among them.

[Some] of the Pharisees who were with him heard these [things] and said to him, "We are not also blind, [are we]?"

But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them [the things] which Jesus had done.

So the chief priests and the Pharisees called together the Sanhedrin and said, "What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs!

(Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, they should report [it], in order that they could arrest him.)

So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see that you are accomplishing nothing! Behold, the world has gone after him."

Yet despite that, even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess [it], so that they would not be expelled from the synagogue.

So Judas, taking the cohort and officers from the chief priests and from the Pharisees, came there with lanterns and torches and weapons.