Then the servants went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, Why have you not got him with you?
But Peter went after him at a distance, to the house of the high priest, and went in and took his seat with the servants, to see the end.
But some of them went to the Pharisees with the news of what Jesus had done.
Then the high priests and the Pharisees had a meeting and said, What are we doing? This man is doing a number of signs.
This discussion of the people came to the ears of the Pharisees; and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent servants to take him.
They said this because of their fear of the Jews: for the Jews had come to an agreement that if any man said that Jesus was the Christ he would be put out of the Synagogue.