John 7:17-27

17 ¹If anyone’s will is to do God’s^[a] will, ²he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I ³am speaking on my own authority.

18 The one who speaks on his own authority ⁴seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.

19 ⁵Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. ⁶Why do you seek to kill me? ”

20 The crowd answered, ⁷“You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you? ”

21 Jesus answered them, “I did ⁸one work, and you all marvel at it.

22 ⁹Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but ¹⁰from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

23 If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, ¹¹are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man’s whole body well?

24 ¹²Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment. ”

Can This Be the Christ?

25 Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, “Is not this the man whom ¹³they seek to kill?

26 And here he is, ¹⁴speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that ¹⁵the authorities really know that this is the Christ?

27 But ¹⁶we know ¹⁷where this man comes from, and when the Christ appears, ¹⁸no one will know where he comes from. ”