²⁵ Then some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem began to say, "Is this not [the one] whom they are seeking to kill? ²⁶ And behold, he is speaking openly and they are saying nothing to him! Can it be that the rulers truly know that this man is the Christ? ²⁷ Yet we know where this man is from, but the Christ, whenever he comes--no one knows where he is from!"

²⁸ Then Jesus cried out in the temple [courts], teaching and saying, "You both know me and you know where I am from! And I have not come from myself, but the one who sent me is true, whom you do not know. ²⁹ I know him, because I am from him and he sent me."

³⁰ So they were seeking to seize him, and no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. ³¹ But from the crowd many believed in him and were saying, "Whenever the Christ comes, he will not perform more signs than this man has done, [will he]?"

³² The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these [things] about him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers in order {to take him into custody }.

³³ Then Jesus said, "Yet a little time I am with you, and I am going to the one who sent me. ³⁴ You will seek me and will not find [me], and where I am, you cannot come."

³⁵ So the Jews said to one another, "Where [is] this one going to go, that we will not find him? He is not going to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, [is he]? ³⁶ What is this saying that he said, 'You will seek me and will not find [me], and where I am, you cannot come'?"