John 7:27

but this one — we have known whence he is; and the Christ, when he doth come, no one doth know whence he is.'

Young's Literal Translation

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 doth speak freely, and they say nothing to him; did the rulers at all know truly that this is truly the Christ?

28Jesus cried, therefore, in the temple, teaching and saying, 'Ye have both known me, and ye have known whence I am; and I have not come of myself, but He who sent me is true, whom ye have not known;

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Cross References

Isaiah 53:8By restraint and by judgment he hath been taken, And of his generation who doth meditate, That he hath been cut off from the land of the living? By the transgression of My people he is plagued,

Jeremiah 30:21And his honourable one hath been of himself, And his ruler from his midst goeth forth, And I have caused him to draw near, And he hath drawn nigh unto Me, For who [is] he who hath pledged his heart To draw nigh unto Me? An affirmation of Jehovah.

Matthew 2:5And they said to him, 'In Beth-Lehem of Judea, for thus it hath been written through the prophet,

Mark 6:3Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us?' — and they were being stumbled at him.

John 6:42and they said, 'Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have known? how then saith this one — Out of the heaven I have come down?'

John 7:41others said, 'This is the Christ;' and others said, 'Why, out of Galilee doth the Christ come?

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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