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Text -- John 7:25-36 (NET)
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Questions About Jesus’ Identity
7:25 Then some of the residents of Jerusalem began to say , “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill ?
7:26 Yet here he is, speaking publicly , and they are saying nothing to him . Do the rulers really know that this man is the Christ ?
7:27 But we know where this man comes from. Whenever the Christ comes , no one will know where he comes from .”
7:28 Then Jesus , while teaching in the temple courts , cried out , “You both know me and know where I come from ! And I have not come on my own initiative , but the one who sent me is true . You do not know him,
7:29 but I know him , because I have come from him and he sent me .”
7:30 So then they tried to seize Jesus , but no one laid a hand on him , because his time had not yet come .
7:31 Yet many of the crowd believed in him and said , “Whenever the Christ comes , he won’t perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he ?”
7:32 The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about Jesus , so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him .
7:33 Then Jesus said , “I will be with you for only a little while longer , and then I am going to the one who sent me .
7:34 You will look for me but will not find me , and where I am you cannot come .”
7:35 Then the Jewish leaders said to one another , “Where is he going to go that we cannot find him ? He is not going to go to the Jewish people dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks , is he?
7:36 What did he mean by saying , ‘You will look for me but will not find me , and where I am you cannot come ’?”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Jesus, The Christ |
Feasts |
Temple |
JESUS CHRIST, 4C2 |
Persecution |
DISPERSION, THE |
MESSIAH |
Wicked |
Faith |
Dispersion |
God |
Greece |
Israel |
Miracles |
Greeks |
Chief Priests |
VERY |
GRECIANS; GREEKS |
HOW |
GENTILES |
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NET Notes -> Joh 7:25; Joh 7:25; Joh 7:25; Joh 7:26; Joh 7:26; Joh 7:26; Joh 7:26; Joh 7:26; Joh 7:27; Joh 7:27; Joh 7:27; Joh 7:27; Joh 7:27; Joh 7:28; Joh 7:28; Joh 7:28; Joh 7:28; Joh 7:28; Joh 7:28; Joh 7:29; Joh 7:29; Joh 7:29; Joh 7:30; Joh 7:30; Joh 7:30; Joh 7:31; Joh 7:31; Joh 7:31; Joh 7:31; Joh 7:32; Joh 7:32; Joh 7:32; Joh 7:32; Joh 7:32; Joh 7:33; Joh 7:33; Joh 7:34; Joh 7:35; Joh 7:35; Joh 7:35; Joh 7:35; Joh 7:35; Joh 7:35; Joh 7:36; Joh 7:36
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NET Notes: Joh 7:27 The view of these people regarding the Messiah that no one will know where he comes from reflects the idea that the origin of the Messiah is a mystery...
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NET Notes: Joh 7:31 Questions prefaced with μή (mh) in Greek anticipate a negative answer. This can sometimes be indicated by using a “tag” at the ...
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NET Notes: Joh 7:32 Grk “to seize him.” In the context of a deliberate attempt by the servants of the chief priests and Pharisees to detain Jesus, the English...
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NET Notes: Joh 7:35 Note the Jewish opponents’ misunderstanding of Jesus’ words, as made clear in vv. 35-36. They didn’t realize he spoke of his departu...
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