John 7:25-36

Tree of Life Version

²⁵ Then some of the people from Jerusalem were saying, “Isn’t this the person they’re trying to kill? ²⁶ Look, He speaks openly and they’re saying nothing to Him. Can it be that the leaders know He is the Messiah? ²⁷ But we know where this person is from. But the Messiah, whenever He may come, no one knows where He is from.”

²⁸ Then, while teaching in the Temple courts, Yeshua cried out, “You know both who I am and where I am from! I have not come on My own, but the One who sent Me is true. You do not know Him, ²⁹ but I know Him because I am from Him and He sent Me.”

³⁰ Then they were trying to seize Him; but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come. ³¹ Yet many from the crowd believed in Him and were saying, “When the Messiah comes, He won’t perform more signs than this person has, will He?” ³² The Pharisees heard people in the crowd murmuring these things about Him, and the ruling kohanim and Pharisees sent guards to arrest Him.

³³ Yeshua said, “I am with you only a little while longer, and then I am going to the One who sent Me. ³⁴ You will look for Me but will not find Me. Where I am, you cannot come.”

³⁵ The Judean leaders then said among themselves, “Where is this person about to go that we shall not find Him? He’s not going to the Diaspora to teach the Greeks, is He? ³⁶ What did He mean by saying, ‘You will look for Me but will not find Me. Where I am, you cannot come’?”