(Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.)

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

Therefore 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 concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why did you not bring him?"

The Pharisees therefore answered them, "You are not also led astray, are you?

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

The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the midst,

The Pharisees therefore said to him, "You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid."

They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees.

Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, "He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see."

Some therefore of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" There was division among them.

Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?"

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

The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we doing? For this man does many signs.

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

The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, "See how you accomplish nothing. Look, the world has gone after him."

Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue,

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