24. Do not judge according to outward appearance, but judge according to righteous judgment!”
25. Then some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem began to say, “Is this not the one whom they are seeking to kill?
26. And behold, he is speaking openly and they are saying nothing to him! Can it be that the rulers truly know that this man is the Christ?
27. Yet we know where this man is from, but the Christ, whenever he comes—no one knows where he is from!”
28. Then Jesus cried out in the temple courts, teaching and saying, “You both know me and you know where I am from! And I have not come from myself, but the one who sent me is true, whom you do not know.
29. I know him, because I am from him and he sent me.”