Then they took to the Pharisees the man who had been blind.
The chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where Jesus was, he must report it, so that they could arrest him.
The Pharisees then said to one another, “You see, we are not succeeding at all! Look, the whole world is following him!”
Even then, many Jewish authorities believed in Jesus; but because of the Pharisees they did not talk about it openly, so as not to be expelled from the synagogue.
“Where is he?” they asked. “I don't know,” he answered.
The day that Jesus made the mud and cured him of his blindness was a Sabbath.