John 7:27

But we know this man, whence he is. But when the Christ comes, no one knows whence he is.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is.

In Context

26and, lo, he is speaking boldly, and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers really learned that this is the Christ?

28Then Jesus cried out in the temple, as he was teaching, and said: You both know me, and you know whence I am; and I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you know not.

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Cross References

Matthew 2:5And they said to him: In Bethlehem of Judea; for thus it is written by the prophet:

Mark 6:3Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James and Joses and Judah and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us? And they found in him cause for offense.

John 6:42And they said: Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How, then, does he say, I came down from heaven?

John 7:41Others said: This is the Christ. But others said: Does the Christ come out of Galilee?

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 →

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