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

He confessed, he did not deny, but confessed, "I am not the Christ."

They asked him, "Then why do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?"

He first found his own brother Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (which means the Christ).

You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but I have been sent before him.

The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming" (who is called Christ). "When he comes, he will tell us all things."

"Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?"

Here he is, speaking publicly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that he is the Christ?

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

And many of the people believed in him, and they said, "When the Christ comes, will he do more signs than this man has done?"

Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "Will the Christ come from Galilee?

Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes from David, and from Bethlehem, the town where David was?"

His parents said this because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had agreed already that if anyone confessed that he was Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.

So the Jews gathered round him and said to him, "How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."

She said to him, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is to come into the world."

The crowd answered him, "We have heard from the Law that the Christ remains forever; and how can you say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of Man?"

And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

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