^25 (A)Make friends quickly with your opponent at law while you are with him on the way, so that your opponent may not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.

³² The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about Him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent ^(A)officers to ^(B)seize 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 the way this man speaks.” ⁴⁷ The Pharisees then answered them, “^(D)You have not also been led astray, have you? ^48 (E)No one of ^(F)the rulers or Pharisees has believed in Him, has he? ⁴⁹ But this crowd which does not know the Law is accursed.” ^50 (G)Nicodemus (he who came to Him before, being one of them) *said to them, ⁵¹ “^(H)Our Law does not judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, does it?” ⁵² They answered him, “^(I)You are not also from Galilee, are you? Search, and see that no prophet arises out of Galilee.” ⁵³ [^[a]Everyone went to his home.

⁶ So when the chief priests and the ^(A)officers saw Him, they cried out saying, “Crucify, crucify!” Pilate *said to them, “Take Him yourselves and crucify Him, for ^(B)I find no guilt in Him.”

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

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).