John 7:25-36

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Can This Be the Christ?

²⁵Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, “Is not this the man whom ^(A)they seek to kill? ²⁶And here he is, ^(B)speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that ^(C)the authorities really know that this is the Christ? ²⁷But ^(D)we know ^(E)where this man comes from, and when the Christ appears, ^(F)no one will know where he comes from.” ²⁸So Jesus proclaimed, ^(G)as he taught in the temple, ^(H)“You know me, and you know where I come from. But ^(I)I have not come of my own accord. ^(J)He who sent me is true, ^(K)and him you do not know. ²⁹^(L)I know him, for I come ^(M)from him, and ^(N)he sent me.” ³⁰^(O)So they were seeking to arrest him, but ^(P)no one laid a hand on him, ^(Q)because his hour had not yet come. ³¹Yet ^(R)many of the people believed in him. They said, ^(S)“When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?”

Officers Sent to Arrest Jesus

³²The Pharisees heard the crowd ^(T)muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent ^(U)officers to arrest him. ³³Jesus then said, ^(V)“I will be with you a little longer, and then ^(W)I am going to him who sent me. ³⁴^(X)You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come.” ³⁵The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we will not find him? ^(Y)Does he intend to go to ^(Z)the Dispersion among ^(AA)the Greeks and teach the Greeks? ³⁶What does he mean by saying, ^(AB)‘You will seek me and you will not find me,’ and, ‘Where I am you cannot come’?”

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Song of Solomon 8:8-14

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Final Advice

Others

⁸We have a little sister,
    and she ^(A)has no breasts.
What shall we do for our sister
    on the day when she is spoken for?
⁹If she is a wall,
    we will build on her a battlement of silver,
but if she is a door,
    we will enclose her with ^(B)boards of cedar.

She

¹⁰^(C)I was a wall,
and my ^(D)breasts were like towers;
then I was in his eyes
as one who finds^[a] peace.

¹¹Solomon had ^(E)a vineyard at Baal-hamon;
    he ^(F)let out the vineyard to ^(G)keepers;
    each one was to bring for its fruit ^(H)a thousand pieces of silver.
¹²My vineyard, my very own, is before me;
    you, O Solomon, may have the thousand,
    and ^(I)the keepers of the fruit two hundred.