About the Jewish leaders and Jesus

The Jewish leaders* did not want to listen to Jesus
because they did not want to follow anyone;
they only wanted to BE followed.

*NB I really feel that the phrase, 'the Jews', as it is generally translated in St John's Gospel, gives a very bad impression of the Jewish people of that time, when the fact was that most, if not all, of Jesus' followers were Jewish then, as indeed was Jesus himself!)