For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.

He confessed -- he did not deny but confessed -- "I am not the Christ!"

So they asked John, "Why then are you baptizing if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"

He first found his own brother Simon and told him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which is translated Christ).

You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but rather, 'I have been sent before him.'

The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming" (the one called Christ); "whenever he comes, he will tell us everything."

Yet here he is, speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to him. Do the rulers really know that this man is the Christ?

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

Yet many of the crowd believed in him and said, "Whenever the Christ comes, he won't perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he?"

Others said, "This is the Christ!" But still others said, "No, for the Christ doesn't come from Galilee, does he?

Don't the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant of David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?"

(His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish religious leaders. For the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.

The Jewish leaders surrounded him and asked, "How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."

She replied, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God who comes into the world."

Then the crowd responded, "We have heard from the law that the Christ will remain forever. How can you say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of Man?"

Isaiah said these things because he saw Christ's glory, and spoke about him.

Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they would not confess Jesus to be the Christ, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue.

Now this is eternal life -- that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

But these are recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.