because 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 to him, "Why, then, do you immerse, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?"

He first finds his own brother Simon, and says to him, "We have found the Messiah," (which, being translated, is Christ).

Ye yourselves bear me testimony, that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but that I have been sent before Him.'

The woman says to Him, "I know that Messiah is coming, Who is called Christ; when He cometh, He will tell us all things."

"Come, see a Man Who told me all things that I ever did: can This be the Christ?"

And, behold, He is speaking openly, and they say nothing to Him! Did the rulers ever truly know that This is the Christ?

But as to This Man we know whence He is; but, when the Christ cometh, no one knows whence He is."

But of the multitude many believed on Him, and said, "When the Christ shall come, will He do more signs than those which This Man did?"

others said, "This is the Christ;" but some said, "What? doth the Christ come out of Nazareth?"

Did not the Scriptures say, that the Christ cometh of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"

These things said his parents, because they were fearing the Jews; for the Jews had agreed already, that, if any one should confess Him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

The Jews, therefore, came round about Him, and said to Him, "How long dost Thou hold us in suspense? If Thou art the Christ, tell us plainly."

She says to Him, "Yea, Lord; I have believed 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 forever; and how sayest Thou that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is This Son of Man?"

And this is the eternal life, that they 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.