So the Pharisees said to one another, 'See, this is getting us nowhere. Look how the whole world has gone after him!' — the Pharisees' despairing comment acknowledges their inability to stop Jesus' influence; the crowd's embrace of Jesus represents their failure to contain His movement. The hyperbolic 'the whole world has gone after him' expresses their sense of futility and loss of control, providing dark irony that precedes their final success in engineering His execution.

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