John 7:25-36

Christian Standard Bible

The Identity of the Messiah

²⁵ Some of the people of Jerusalem^(A) were saying, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill? ²⁶ Yet, look, he’s speaking publicly and they’re saying nothing to him. Can it be true that the authorities^(B) know he is the Messiah?^{(C) 27} But we know where this man is from.^(D) When the Messiah comes, nobody will know where he is from.”

²⁸ As he was teaching in the temple,^(E) Jesus cried out, “You know me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on my own, but the one who sent me^(F) is true. You don’t know him;^{(G) 29} I know him because I am from him, and he sent me.”^(H)

³⁰ Then they tried to seize him. Yet no one laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come. ³¹ However, many from the crowd believed in him and said, “When the Messiah comes, he won’t perform more signs than this man has done,^(I) will he?” ³² The Pharisees^(J) heard the crowd murmuring these things about him, and so the chief priests^(K) and the Pharisees sent servants^[a] to arrest him.

³³ Then Jesus said, “I am only with you for a short time.^(L) Then I’m going to the one who sent me.^{(M) 34} You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come.”^(N)

³⁵ Then the Jews^(O) said to one another, “Where does he intend to go that we won’t find him? He doesn’t intend to go to the Jewish people dispersed^[b](P) among the Greeks^(Q) and teach the Greeks, does he? ³⁶ What is this remark he made: ‘You will look for me, and you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come’^(R)?”