Now it was some of the Pharisees who had been sent to him;

Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, who belonged to the Jewish authorities;

Now when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had heard of Jesus gaining and baptizing more disciples than John

The Pharisees heard the people discussing Jesus in this way, so the high priests and the Pharisees despatched attendants to arrest him.

Then the attendants went back to the high priests and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why have you not brought him with you?"

The Pharisees retorted, "Are you misled as well?

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

The scribes and Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of committing adultery, and making her stand forward

So the Pharisees said to him, "You are testifying to yourself; your evidence is not valid."

They brought him before the Pharisees, this man who had once been blind.

So the Pharisees asked him again how he had regained his sight, and he told them, "He smeared some clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and now I can see."

Then said some of the Pharisees, "This man is not from God, for he does not keep the sabbath"; others said, "How can a sinner perform such Signs?" They were divided on this.

On hearing this the Pharisees who were beside him asked, "And are we blind?"

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

whereupon the high priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin. "Whatever is to be done?" they said. "The fellow is performing a number of Signs.

(The high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that they were to be informed, if anyone found out where he was, so that they might arrest him.)

Then said the Pharisees to one another, "You see, you can do nothing! Look, the world has gone after him."

Still, a number even of the authorities believed in him, though they would not confess it on account of the Pharisees, in case of being excommunicated;

So after procuring troops and some attendants belonging to the high priests and the Pharisees, Judas went there with lanterns and torches and weapons.