John 7:26
But see how openly he's speaking, and they're saying nothing to him. Do you think the authorities believe he's the Messiah?
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In Context
25Then some of those from Jerusalem began wondering, “Isn't this the one they're trying to kill?
Cross References
Psalms 40:9I have announced the good news of salvation to the whole congregation. I don't keep quiet, Lord, as you know.
Proverbs 28:1The wicked run away even when no one is chasing them, but the good have the trusting boldness of lions.
Isaiah 50:7The Lord God helps me, so I haven't been disgraced. That's why I'm so determined, setting my face hard as stone, knowing I won't be humiliated.
Luke 7:30But the Pharisees and the religious teachers rejected what God wanted them to do, for they had refused to be baptized by John.
John 9:22The reason his parents said this was because they were afraid of what the Jewish leaders would do. The Jewish leaders had already announced that anyone who declared that Jesus was the Messiah would be thrown out of the synagogue.
John 12:42Even so many of the leaders did trust in him. However, they did not openly admit it because they did not want the Pharisees to expel them 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 →