7:25 Then some of the residents of Jerusalem 1 began to say, “Isn’t this the man 2 they are trying 3 to kill? 7:26 Yet here he is, speaking publicly, 4 and they are saying nothing to him. 5 Do the rulers really know that this man 6 is the Christ? 7 7:27 But we know where this man 8 comes from. 9 Whenever the Christ 10 comes, no one will know where he comes from.” 11
7:28 Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, 12 cried out, 13 “You both know me and know where I come from! 14 And I have not come on my own initiative, 15 but the one who sent me 16 is true. You do not know him, 17 7:29 but 18 I know him, because I have come from him 19 and he 20 sent me.”
7:30 So then they tried to seize Jesus, 21 but no one laid a hand on him, because his time 22 had not yet come. 7:31 Yet many of the crowd 23 believed in him and said, “Whenever the Christ 24 comes, he won’t perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he?” 25
7:32 The Pharisees 26 heard the crowd 27 murmuring these things about Jesus, 28 so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers 29 to arrest him. 30 7:33 Then Jesus said, “I will be with you for only a little while longer, 31 and then 32 I am going to the one who sent me. 7:34 You will look for me 33 but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come.”
7:35 Then the Jewish leaders 34 said to one another, “Where is he 35 going to go that we cannot find him? 36 He is not going to go to the Jewish people dispersed 37 among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he? 38 7:36 What did he mean by saying, 39 ‘You will look for me 40 but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come’?”