^25 (A)[a]Come to good terms with your accuser quickly, while you are with him on the way to court, so that your accuser will not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you will not be thrown into prison.

³² The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering these things about Him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent ^(A)officers to ^(B)arrest Him.

⁴⁵ The ^(A)officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why did you not bring Him?” ⁴⁶ The ^(B)officers answered, “^(C)Never has a man spoken in this way!” ⁴⁷ The Pharisees then replied to them, “^(D)You have not been led astray too, have you? ^48 (E)Not one of ^(F)the rulers or Pharisees has believed in Him, has he? ⁴⁹ But this crowd that does not know the Law is accursed!” ^50 (G)Nicodemus (the one who came to Him before, being one of them) *said to them, ⁵¹ “^(H)Our Law does not judge the person unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, does it?” ⁵² They answered and said to him, “^(I)You are not from Galilee as well, are you? Examine the Scriptures, and see that no prophet arises out of Galilee.” ⁵³ [[^[a]And everyone went to his home.

⁶ So when the chief priests and the ^(A)officers saw Him, they shouted, saying, “Crucify, crucify!” Pilate *said to them, “Take Him yourselves and crucify Him; for ^(B)I find no grounds for charges in ^[a]His case!”

²² But ^(A)the officers who came did not find them in the prison; and they returned and reported,

²⁶ Then ^(A)the captain went along with ^(B)the officers and proceeded to bring them back without violence (for ^(C)they were afraid of the people, that they might be stoned).