20. “You have a demon in you!” the crowd answered. “Who is trying to kill you?”
21. Jesus answered, “I performed one miracle, and you were all surprised.
22. Moses ordered you to circumcise your sons (although it was not Moses but your ancestors who started it), and so you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath.
23. If a boy is circumcised on the Sabbath so that Moses' Law is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?
24. Stop judging by external standards, and judge by true standards.”
25. Some of the people of Jerusalem said, “Isn't this the man the authorities are trying to kill?
26. Look! He is talking in public, and they say nothing against him! Can it be that they really know that he is the Messiah?
27. But when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from. And we all know where this man comes from.”
28. As Jesus taught in the Temple, he said in a loud voice, “Do you really know me and know where I am from? I have not come on my own authority. He who sent me, however, is truthful. You do not know him,
29. but I know him, because I come from him and he sent me.”
30. Then they tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
31. But many in the crowd believed in him and said, “When the Messiah comes, will he perform more miracles than this man has?”
32. The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering these things about Jesus, so they and the chief priests sent some guards to arrest him.
33. Jesus said, “I shall be with you a little while longer, and then I shall go away to him who sent me.
34. You will look for me, but you will not find me, because you cannot go where I will be.”
35. The Jewish authorities said among themselves, “Where is he about to go so that we shall not find him? Will he go to the Greek cities where our people live, and teach the Greeks?
36. He says that we will look for him but will not find him, and that we cannot go where he will be. What does he mean?”