25-27 That’s when some of the people of Jerusalem said, “Isn’t this the one they were out to kill? And here he is out in the open, saying whatever he pleases, and no one is stopping him. Could it be that the rulers know that he is, in fact, the Messiah? And yet we know where this man came from. The Messiah is going to come out of nowhere. Nobody is going to know where he comes from.”

28-29 That provoked Jesus, who was teaching in the Temple, to cry out, “Yes, you think you know me and where I’m from, but that’s not where I’m from. I didn’t set myself up in business. My true origin is in the One who sent me, and you don’t know him at all. I come from him—that’s how I know him. He sent me here.”

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27 But we know where this man is from;(A) when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from.”

28 Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts,(B) cried out, “Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from.(C) I am not here on my own authority, but he who sent me is true.(D) You do not know him, 29 but I know him(E) because I am from him and he sent me.”(F)

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