John 7:25-31

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?"

Cross References

• 1. ver. 1
• 2. John 18:20
• 3. ver. 48
• 4. [John 6:42; John 8:14, 19; John 9:29]
• 5. John 19:9
• 6. [ver. 42]
• 7. ver. 14
• 8. [See ver. 27 above]
• 9. John 8:42; [John 5:43]
• 10. See John 8:26
• 11. John 8:19; John 15:21; [John 4:22; John 8:55]
• 12. John 8:55; See Matthew 11:27
• 13. John 6:46; John 9:16, 33; [John 1:14]
• 14. See John 3:17
• 15. ver. 44; John 10:39; [Matthew 21:46]
• 16. John 8:20
• 17. ver. 6
• 18. John 8:30; John 10:42; John 11:45; John 12:11; [John 2:23; John 12:42; Matthew 21:11]
• 19. Matthew 12:23