John 7:24-31

²⁴Do not judge according to appearance, but judge righteously.”

²⁵Some of them from Jerusalem said, “Is not this the one they seek to kill?

²⁶See, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. It cannot be that the rulers indeed know that this is the Christ, can it?

²⁷Yet we know where this one is from. But when the Christ comes, no one will know where he is from.”

²⁸Then Jesus cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know me and know where I come from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, and you do not know him.

²⁹I know him because I come from him and he sent me.”

³⁰They were trying to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come.

³¹But many in the crowd believed in him, and they said, “When the Christ comes, will he do more signs than what this one has done?”