³¹ Still, many in the crowd believed in him.^(A) They said, “When the Messiah comes, will he perform more signs^(B) than this man?”

³² The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering such things about him. Then the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple guards to arrest him.

⁴³ Thus the people were divided^(A) because of Jesus. ⁴⁴ Some wanted to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.^(B)