You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.’

The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.”

“Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?”

Can This Be the Christ?

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

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

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

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

Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “Is the Christ to come from Galilee?

Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”

(His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess Jesus to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.)

So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”

She said to him, “Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world.”

So the crowd answered him, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ remains forever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”

And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.

Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

But Peter said, “I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!”

But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled.

that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus,

let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by him this man is standing before you well.

And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and preaching that the Christ is Jesus.

Philip Proclaims Christ in Samaria

Now those who were scattered went about preaching the word.

Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed to them the Christ.