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At that time if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah!’ or, ‘Look, there he is!’ do not believe it.
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For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
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But Jesus remained silent and gave no answer. Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?”
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Let this Messiah, this king of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe.” Those crucified with him also heaped insults on him.
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Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord.
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It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord’s Messiah.
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The people were waiting expectantly and were all wondering in their hearts if John might possibly be the Messiah.
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Moreover, demons came out of many people, shouting, “You are the Son of God!” But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew he was the Messiah.
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Peter Declares That Jesus Is the Messiah
Once when Jesus was praying in private and his disciples were with him, he asked them, “Who do the crowds say I am?”
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“But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?” Peter answered, “God’s Messiah.”
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Whose Son Is the Messiah?
Then Jesus said to them, “Why is it said that the Messiah is the son of David?
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“If you are the Messiah,” they said, “tell us.” Jesus answered, “If I tell you, you will not believe me,
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And they began to accuse him, saying, “We have found this man subverting our nation. He opposes payment of taxes to Caesar and claims to be Messiah, a king.”
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The people stood watching, and the rulers even sneered at him. They said, “He saved others; let him save himself if he is God’s Messiah, the Chosen One.”
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One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!”
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Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?”
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He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,
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John the Baptist Denies Being the Messiah
Now this was John’s testimony when the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him who he was.
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He did not fail to confess, but confessed freely, “I am not the Messiah.”
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questioned him, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
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The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, “We have found the Messiah” (that is, the Christ).
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You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah but am sent ahead of him.’
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The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
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“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?”
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Here he is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying a word to him. Have the authorities really concluded that he is the Messiah?
