Now the messengers belonged to the party of the Pharisees;

Now there was a man named Nicodemus, who belonged to the party of the Pharisees and was a leader among the Jews.

Now when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had heard that He was winning and baptizing more disciples than John --

The Pharisees heard the people whispering this about Him, and so the high priests and Pharisees sent some officers to arrest Him.

So the officers went back to the high priests and Pharisees. The latter asked the officers, "Why have you not brought Him?"

Then the Pharisees answered, "You are not swept off your feet too, are you?

None of the authorities or of the Pharisees have believed in Him, have they?

And the scribes and Pharisees brought a woman they had caught in adultery. And standing her in the middle,

The Pharisees then 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 the Pharisees again asked him how he had come to see. He answered them: "He put some clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and so now I can see."

Then some of the Pharisees said, "This man does not come from God, for He does not keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a sinful man perform such wonder- works?" So there was a difference of opinion among them.

Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard this, and asked Him, "We are not blind, are we?"

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

So the high priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the council, and began to say, "What are we to do? For this man is certainly performing many wonder-works.

Now the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone should learn where He was, he should let it be known so that they might arrest Him.

So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see, you cannot help it at all; the whole world has gone off after Him!"

And yet in spite of all this, even among the leading men many came to believe in Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not own it, for fear of being turned out of the synagogue,

So Judas got together the Roman garrison and some attendants from the high priests and Pharisees, and went there with lanterns and torches and weapons.