(Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should report it, so that they could arrest him.)
They repay my love with accusations, but I continue to pray.
Then they attempted again to seize him, but he escaped their clutches.
But some of them went to the Pharisees and reported to them what Jesus had done.
So the chief priests and the Pharisees called the council together and said, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many miraculous signs.
Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out from the temple area.
(His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish religious leaders. For the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.