New English Translation

John 7:27-32 New English Translation (NET)

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

28. Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “You both know me and know where I come from! And I have not come on my own initiative, but the one who sent me is true. You do not know him,

29. but I know him, because I have come from him and he sent me.”

30. So then they tried to seize Jesus, but no one laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come.

31. 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?”

32. The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about Jesus, so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.