John 7:24-31

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?”