John 7:26
Good News Translation
Look! He is talking in public, and they say nothing against him! Can it be that they really know that he is the Messiah?

New Revised Standard Version
And here he is, speaking openly, but they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Messiah?

Contemporary English Version
Yet here he is, speaking for everyone to hear. And no one is arguing with him. Do you suppose the authorities know he is the Messiah?

New American Bible
And look, he is speaking openly and they say nothing to him. Could the authorities have realized that he is the Messiah?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And behold, he speaketh openly: and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers known for a truth that this is the Christ?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And behold, he speaketh openly: and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers known for a truth that this is the Christ?

he speaketh.

Psalm 40:9,10 I have declared thy justice in a great church, lo, I will not restrain my lips: O Lord, thou knowest it. . . .

Psalm 71:15,16 My mouth shall shew forth thy justice; thy salvation all the day long. Because I have not known learning, . . .

Proverbs 28:1 The wicked man fleeth, when no man pursueth: but the just, bold as a lion, shall be without dread.

Isaiah 42:4 He shall not be sad, nor troublesome, till he set judgment in the earth, and the islands shall wait for his law.

Isaiah 50:7,8 The Lord God is my helper, therefore am I not confounded: therefore have I set my face as a most hard rock, and I know that I shall not be confounded. . . .

Matthew 22:16 And they sent to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying: Master, we know that thou art a true speaker and teachest the way of God in truth. Neither carest thou for any man: for thou dost not regard the person of men.

Acts 4:13 Now seeing the constancy of Peter and of John, understanding that they were illiterate and ignorant men, they wondered: and they knew them that they had been with Jesus.

Ephesians 6:19,20 And for me, that speech may be given me, that I may open my mouth with confidence, to make known the mystery of the gospel, . . .

Philippians 1:14 And many of the brethren in the Lord, growing confident by my bands, are much more bold to speak the word of God without fear.

2 Timothy 1:7,8 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear: but of power and of love and of sobriety. . . .

Do.

John 7:48 Hath any one of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

John 9:22 These things his parents said, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had already agreed among themselves that if any man should confess him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

John 11:47-53 The chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees gathered a council and said: What do we, for this man doth many miracles? . . .

John 12:42 However, many of the chief men also believed in him: but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, that they might not be cast out of the synagogue.

Luke 7:30 But the Pharisees and the lawyers despised the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized by him.

Context
Is Jesus the Christ?
25Some therefore of Jerusalem said: Is not this he whom they seek to kill? 26And behold, he speaketh openly: and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers known for a truth that this is the Christ? 27But we know this man, whence he is: but when the Christ cometh, no man knoweth, whence he is.…
Cross References
Luke 23:13
And Pilate, calling together the chief priests and the magistrates and the people,

John 3:1
And there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

John 4:29
Come, and see a man who has told me all things whatsoever I have done. Is not he the Christ?

John 7:25
Some therefore of Jerusalem said: Is not this he whom they seek to kill?

John 7:31
But of the people many believed in him and said: When the Christ cometh, shall he do more miracles than this man doth?

John 7:48
Hath any one of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

John 18:20
Jesus answered him: I have spoken openly to the world. I have always taught in the synagogue and in the temple, whither all the Jews resort: and in secret I have spoken nothing.

John 7:25
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