For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

And he declared, and did not deny; and he declared, I am not the Christ.

and they asked him and said to him, Why then dost thou baptize, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?

He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith to him, We have found the Messiah; (which is, when interpreted, the Christ.)

Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I was sent before that man.

The woman saith to him, I know that Messiah cometh (who is called Christ); when he hath come, he will tell us all things.

Come, see a man who told me all things which I have done. Is this the Christ?

and see! he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers discovered certainly that this man is the Christ?

Still, as to this man, we know whence he is; but when the Christ cometh, no one knoweth whence he is.

But of the multitude many believed in him, and said, When the Christ cometh, will he do more signs than these which this man doeth?

Some of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, This is in truth the prophet. Others said, This is the Christ.

Others said, Doth the Christ then come from Galilee?

Hath not the Scripture said, that the Christ cometh from the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the town where David was?

{Joh 7:538:12: This passage is omitted as ungenuine by Tischendorf and most critical editors of the Greek Testament. It is found in some manuscripts, but not in the most ancient. It is, however, very generally regarded as a genuine relic of the teaching of Christ, though not forming a part of the fourth Gospel. I give it in the text of Tregelles, omitting the words which he incloses in brackets. Tregelles, however, does not suppose it to be genuine.} [And they went each to his house;

This his parents said, because they feared the Jews. For the Jews had already agreed, that if any one should acknowledge him as the Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

Then came the Jews around him, and said to him, How long dost thou hold our minds in suspense? If thou art the Christ, tell us plainly.

She saith to him, Yea, Lord; I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, he who was to come into the world.

The multitude therefore answered him, We have heard out of the Law that the Christ abideth for ever; how then dost thou say that the Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?

And this is the everlasting life, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou didst send.

But these have been written, that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God, and that believing ye may have life in his name.