During the festival the Jewish leaders looked for Jesus and asked, "Where is he?"
The Jewish leaders in Jerusalem sent priests and temple helpers to ask John who he was. He told them plainly, "I am not the Messiah."
They looked around for Jesus. Then when they were in the temple, they asked each other, "You don't think he will come here for Passover, do you?"
Jesus decided to leave Judea and to start going through Galilee because the Jewish leaders wanted to kill him.
But the people were afraid of their leaders, and none of them talked in public about him.
The leaders were surprised and said, "How does this man know so much? He has never been taught!"
"Where is he now?" they asked. "I don't know," he answered.