John 7:26
See, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. It cannot be that the rulers indeed know that this is the Christ, can it?
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In Context
25Some of them from Jerusalem said, “Is not this the one they seek to kill?
27Yet we know where this one is from. But when the Christ comes, no one will know where he is from.”
Cross References
Psalms 40:9I have proclaimed good news of your righteousness in the great assembly; 1 Yahweh, you know that my lips have not kept back from doing this. 1
Proverbs 28:1The wicked people run away when no one chases them, 1 but righteous people are as bold as a young lion. 1
Isaiah 50:7For the Lord Yahweh will help me; therefore I am not disgraced; 1 so I have made my face like flint, for I know that I will not be put to shame. 1
Luke 7:30But the Pharisees and the experts in Jewish law rejected God's purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)
John 9:22His parents said these things, because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already agreed that if anyone would confess him to be the Christ, he would be thrown out of the synagogue.
John 12:42But despite that, many of the rulers believed in Jesus; but because of the Pharisees, they did not admit it so that they would not be banned 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 →