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

And he confessed, and denied not; and he confessed, I am not the Christ.

And they asked him, and said unto him, Why then baptizest thou, if thou art not the Christ, neither Elijah, neither the prophet?

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

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

The woman saith unto him, I know that Messiah cometh (he that is called Christ): when he is come, he will declare unto us all things.

Come, see a man, who told me all things that ever I did: can this be the Christ?

And lo, he speaketh openly, and they say nothing unto him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is the Christ?

Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when the Christ cometh, no one knoweth whence he is.

But of the multitude many believed on him; and they said, When the Christ shall come, will he do more signs than those which this man hath done?

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

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

These things said his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man should confess him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

The Jews therefore came round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou hold us in suspense? If thou art the Christ, tell us plainly.

She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I have believed that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, even he that cometh into the world.

The multitude therefore answered him, We have heard out of the law that the Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man?

And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ.

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