John 7:25-36

Holman Christian Standard Bible

The Identity of the Messiah

²⁵ Some of the people of Jerusalem^(A) were saying, “Isn’t this the man they want 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 complex,^(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^[a] 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 muttering these things about Him, so the chief priests^(K) and the Pharisees sent temple police 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 so we won’t find Him? He doesn’t intend to go to the Dispersion^[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)?”