John 7:26
Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Messiah?
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
25Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, “Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill?
Cross References
Psalms 40:9I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, LORD, you know.
Proverbs 28:1The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
Isaiah 50:7For the Lord GOD will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I won’t be disappointed.
Luke 7:30But the Pharisees and the Torah scholars rejected the counsel of God, not being immersed by him themselves.
John 9:22His parents said these things because they feared the Judeans; for the Judeans had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Messiah, he would be put out of the synagogue.
John 12:42Nevertheless, even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of 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 →