Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees. And they said to them, Why have you not brought him?
But Peter followed Him afar off to the high priest's court, and he went in and sat with the servants to see the end.
But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
Then the chief priests and Pharisees gathered a sanhedrin, and said, What can we do? For this man does many miracles.
The Pharisees heard that the crowd murmured such things concerning Him. And the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to seize Him.
His parents spoke these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed that He was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.