Jn 7:25-31

25So some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, “Is he not the one they are trying to kill? 26And look, he is speaking openly and they say nothing to him. Could the authorities^* have realized that he is the Messiah? 27But we know where he is from. When the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from.”ⁿ 28So Jesus cried out in the temple area as he was teaching and said, “You know me and also know where I am from. Yet I did not come on my own, but the one who sent me, whom you do not know, is true.^o 29I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”^p 30So they tried to arrest him, but no one laid a hand upon him, because his hour had not yet come.^q 31But many of the crowd began to believe in him, and said, “When the Messiah comes, will he perform more signs than this man has done?”^r