John 7:25-27

Expanded Bible

Is Jesus the Christ?

²⁵ Then some of the people who lived in Jerusalem said, “·This is the man [^LIsn’t this the man…?] they are trying to kill. ²⁶ But he is ·teaching where everyone can see and hear him [^Lspeaking publicly], and no one is ·trying to stop [^Lsaying anything to] him. Maybe the ·leaders [rulers; authorities] have ·decided [come to recognize] he really is the ·Christ [Messiah]. ²⁷ But we know where this man is from. Yet when the real ·Christ [Messiah] comes, no one will know where he comes from.” [^CSome Jewish traditions claimed the Messiah would be unknown until he came to deliver Israel.]