John 7:25-36 - Is Jesus The Christ?
25 Then said some of the Jerusalemites, "Is this not the man they want to kill? 26 Yet here he is, opening his lips in public, and they say nothing to him! Can the authorities have really discovered that he is the Christ? 27 No, we know where this man comes from; but when the Christ does come, no one will know where he comes from."
28 So Jesus cried aloud, as he was teaching in the temple, "You know me? you know where I come from? But I have not come on my own initiative; I am sent, and sent by Him who is real. You do not know Him, 29 but I know Him, because I have come from Him and He sent me."
30 So they tried to arrest him; but no one laid hands on him, because his time had not come yet. 31 Indeed many of the people believed in him, saying, "When the Christ does come, will he perform more Signs than this man?"
32 The Pharisees heard the people discussing Jesus in this way, so the high priests and the Pharisees despatched attendants to arrest him.
33 Then said Jesus, "I will be with you a little longer, then I go to Him who sent me; 34 you will search for me but you will not find me, and where I go, you cannot come."
35 The Jews said to themselves, "Where is he going, that we will not find him? Is he off to the Dispersion among the Greeks, to teach the Greeks? 36 What does he mean by saying, 'You will search for me but you will not find me, and where I go, you cannot come'?"