Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him back with you?”
But Peter was following him from a distance, all the way to the high priest’s courtyard. After going in, he sat with the guards to see the outcome.
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.
The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about Jesus, so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
(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.