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John 7:26

Yet here he is, speaking out boldly, and they say nothing to him! Is it possible that our leading men have really discovered that he is the Christ?

Open English Bible (UK)

In The King James Version

But, lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing unto him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ?

In Context

25At this some of the people of Jerusalem exclaimed, ‘Is not this the man who they are seeking to put to death?

27Yet we know where this man is from; but, when the Christ comes, no one will be able to tell where he is from.’

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Cross References

Psalms 40:9Well, O Lord, you know that, with lips unrestrained, your righteousness I told in the great congregation,

Luke 7:30But the Pharisees and the students of the Law, having rejected John’s baptism, frustrated God’s purpose in regard to them.)

John 9:22His parents spoke in this way because they were afraid of the authorities; for the authorities had already agreed that, if anyone should acknowledge Jesus as the Christ, he should be expelled from their synagogues.

John 12:42Yet for all this, even among the leading men there were many who came to believe in Jesus; but, because of the Pharisees, they did not acknowledge it, because they were afraid that they should be expelled from their synagogues;

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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