Is Jesus the Christ?

25 Then some of the [people] of Jerusalem began to say, “Isn’t this [the man] they are trying to kill? 26 Yet here He is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying [anything] to Him. {Have} the rulers truly recognized that this is the Christ? 27 But we know where this [man] is {from}. When the Christ comes, no one will know where He is {from}.”

28 Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple [courts], cried out, “You know Me, and you know where I am {from}. I have not come of My own accord, but He who sent Me is true. You {do} not know Him, 29 but I know Him, because I am from Him and He sent Me.”

30 So they tried to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour {had} not yet come. 31 Many in the crowd, however, believed in Him and said, “When the Christ comes, will He perform more signs than this [man]?”

32 [When] the Pharisees heard the crowd whispering these things about [Jesus], [they] and the chief priests sent officers to arrest Him. 33 So Jesus said, “I am with you only a little while longer, and then I am going to the [One who] sent Me. 34 You will look for Me, [but] you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”

35 At this, the Jews said to one another, “Where {does} He intend to go that we will not find Him? Will He go where the [Jews] are dispersed among the Greeks,[fn] and teach the Greeks? 36 What does He mean by saying, ‘You will look for Me, [but] you will not find Me,’ and, ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?”