John 7:41

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Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee?

But of the multitude many believed on Him, and said, "When the Christ shall come, will He do more signs than those which This Man did?"

He first finds his own brother Simon, and says to him, "We have found the Messiah," (which, being translated, is Christ).

The woman says to Him, "I know that Messiah is coming, Who is called Christ; when He cometh, He will tell us all things."

And we have believed and know, that Thou art the Holy One of God."

And they said, "Some say John the Immerser; and others, Elijah; and others Jeremiah, or one of the prophets."

They answered, and said to him, "Are you also of Galilee? Search, and see that out of Galilee arises no prophet."

And Nathanael said to him, Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Philip says to him, "Come and see."

For from this time forth five in one house will be divided, three against two, and two against three;

There arose again a division among the Jews because of these words.