John 7:26
And lo, he speaks in public, and they say nothing to him. Perhaps the rulers really know that this really is the Christ?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
25Therefore some of the Jerusalemites said, Is not this he whom they seek to kill?
Cross References
Psalms 40:9I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great assembly. Lo, I will not refrain my lips. O LORD, thou know.
Proverbs 28:1A wicked man flees when no man pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Isaiah 50:7For lord LORD will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame.
Luke 7:30But the Pharisees and the lawyers who were not immersed by him, rejected the purpose of God for themselves.
John 9:22His parents spoke these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man confessed him as Christ, he should become excommunicated from the synagogue.
John 12:42Yet, nevertheless, even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess, so that they would not become excommunicated from the synagogue,
Matthew Henry on John 7:15-37
Christ at the Feast of Tabernacles. 14 Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught. 15 And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned? 16 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. 17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. 18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and… Read the whole commentary →