John 7:25-35

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.

31 Yet ¹⁸many of the people believed in him. They said, ¹⁹"When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?"

Officers Sent to Arrest Jesus

32 The Pharisees heard the crowd ²⁰muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent ²¹officers to arrest him.

33 Jesus then said, ²²"I will be with you a little longer, and then ²³I am going to him who sent me.

34 ²⁴You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come."

35 The Jews said to one another, "Where does this man intend to go that we will not find him? ²⁵Does he intend to go to ²⁶the Dispersion among ²⁷the Greeks and teach the Greeks?