They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind.
But the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out where Jesus was should report it so that they might arrest him.
So the Pharisees said to one another, “See, this is getting us nowhere. Look how the whole world has gone after him!”
Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they would not openly acknowledge their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue;
“Where is this man?” they asked him. “I don’t know,” he said.
Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened the man’s eyes was a Sabbath.