And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, “No.”

He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.”

They asked him, “Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.)

When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said, “This is indeed the Prophet who is to come into the world!”

It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me—

Division Among the People

When they heard these words, some of the people said, “This really is the Prophet.”

They replied, “Are you from Galilee too? Search and see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”

The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say, ‘If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.’

Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died! Who do you make yourself out to be?”

So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he has opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”

so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: “Lord, who has believed what he heard from us, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”