John 7:11

Contemporary English Version 1995

During the festival the leaders of the people looked for Jesus and asked, “Where is he?”

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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?”

The religious authorities in Jerusalem sent priests and temple helpers to ask John who he was. He told them plainly, “I am not the Messiah.”

Jesus decided to leave Judea and to start going through Galilee because the leaders of the people 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.