You will bear me witness that I said, 'I am not the Christ; I have been sent in advance of him.'

The woman said to him, "I know that the Messiah is coming??e who is called the Christ. When he comes, he will tell us everything!"

"Come, here is a man who has told me everything I ever did! Do you suppose he is the Christ?"

And here he is speaking publicly, and they say nothing to him! Can the authorities really have found that he is the Christ?

But then, we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he is from."

But many of the people believed in him, and said, "Will the Christ show more signs when he comes than this man has shown?"

Others said, "This is the Christ!" But they rejoined, "What! Is the Christ to come from Galilee?

Do not the Scriptures say that the Christ is to spring from the descendants of David and to come from the village of Bethlehem where David lived?"

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already made an agreement that if anyone acknowledged Jesus as the Christ, he should be excluded from the synagogues.

So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, "How much longer are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are really the Christ, tell us so frankly!"

She said to him, "Yes, Master, I do indeed believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."

The crowd answered, "We have learned from the Law that the Christ is to remain here forever. So how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"

And eternal life means knowing you as the only true God, and knowing Jesus your messenger as Christ.

But these have been recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and through believing you may have life as his followers.