23When a man receives circumcision on a Sabbath to prevent the Law of Moses from being broken, how can you be angry with me for making a man sound and well on a Sabbath?
24Do not judge by appearances; judge justly.”
25At this some of the people of Jerusalem exclaimed, “Is not this the man who they are seeking to put to death?
26Yet here he is, speaking out boldly, and they say nothing to him! Is it possible that our leading men have really discovered that he is the Christ?
27Yet we know where this man is from; but, when the Christ comes, no one will be able to tell where he is from.”
28Therefore, Jesus, as he was teaching in the Temple Courts, raised his voice and said, “Yes; you know me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on my own authority, but he who sent me may be trusted; and him you do not know.
29I do know him, for it is from him that I have come, and he sent me as his messenger.”
30So they sought to arrest him; but no one touched him, for his time was not come yet.
31Many of the people, however, believed in him. “When the Christ comes,” they said, “will he give more signs of his mission than this man has given?”
32The Pharisees heard the people whispering about him in this way, and so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him;
33at which Jesus said, “I will be with you but a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me.
John 7
John 7:23-33