Is Jesus the Christ?

25 Now some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, “Is this not the man whom they are seeking to kill? 26 And behold, he is speaking openly, and they are saying nothing to him. Could it be that the rulers indeed know that he is [fn]truly the Christ? 27 Yet we know where this man is from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he is from.” 28 Then Jesus cried out as he taught in the temple courts, “You know me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on my own authority, but he who sent me is true. You do not know him, 29 but I know him, because I have come from him, and he is the one who sent me.” 30 So they were trying to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. 31 Still, many from among the crowd believed in him and said, “When the Christ comes, will he do more signs than this man has done?”