¹³ But no one would say anything publicly about him for fear of the leaders.^(A)

⁴⁸ “Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him?^(A)

²² His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders,^(A) who already had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be put out^(B) of the synagogue.^(C)