John 7:25-30

Can This Be the Christ?

25 Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, “Is not this the man whom ¹they seek to kill?

26 And here he is, ²speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that ³the authorities really know that this is the Christ?

27 But ⁴we know ⁵where this man comes from, and when the Christ appears, ⁶no one will know where he comes from. ”

28 So Jesus proclaimed, ⁷as he taught in the temple, ⁸“You know me, and you know where I come from. But ⁹I have not come of my own accord. ¹⁰He who sent me is true, ¹¹and him you do not know.

29 ¹²I know him, for I come ¹³from him, and ¹⁴he sent me. ”

30 ¹⁵So they were seeking to arrest him, but ¹⁶no one laid a hand on him, ¹⁷because his hour had not yet come.