Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t y’all bring him in?”
The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things about him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
But Peter followed him from a distance to the courtyard of the high priest. He entered in and sat with the officers, to see the outcome.
His parents said these things because they feared the Jewish leaders. For they had already agreed that anyone who confessed him to be Christ would be put out of the synagogue.
But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done.
The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs.