John 7:45-46
Lack of Belief
7:45 Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him back with you?”
7:46 The officers replied, “No one ever spoke like this man!”
John 18:3
18:3 So Judas obtained a squad of soldiers
and some officers of the chief priests and Pharisees.
They came to the orchard
with lanterns
and torches and weapons.
Luke 22:52-53
22:52 Then
Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple guard,
and the elders who had come out to get him, “Have you come out with swords and clubs like you would against an outlaw?
22:53 Day after day when I was with you in the temple courts,
you did not arrest me.
But this is your hour,
and that of the power
of darkness!”
Acts 5:26
5:26 Then the commander
of the temple guard
went with the officers
and brought the apostles
without the use of force
(for they were afraid of being stoned by the people).