John 7:40

When some from the crowd heard these words, they said, “This really is the Prophet!”

And the crowds kept saying, “This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth in Galilee!”

“What then?” they asked him. “Are you Elijah?”

“I am not,” he said.

“Are you the Prophet?”

“No,” he answered.

When the people saw the sign He had done, they said, “This really is the Prophet who was to come into the world!”

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Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.

Again a division took place among the Jews because of these words.