John 7:41

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Others said,“This is the Christ!” But still others said,“No, for the Christ doesn’t come from Galilee, does he?

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  • John 1:46 : 46 Nathanael replied,“Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip replied,“Come and see.”
  • John 7:52 : 52 They replied,“You aren’t from Galilee too, are you? Investigate carefully and you will see that no prophet comes from Galilee!”
  • Matt 16:14-16 : 14 They answered,“Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” 15 He said to them,“But who do you say that I am?” 16 Simon Peter answered,“You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
  • John 1:41 : 41 He first found his own brother Simon and told him,“We have found the Messiah!”(which is translated Christ).
  • John 1:49 : 49 Nathanael answered him,“Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the king of Israel!”
  • John 4:25 : 25 The woman said to him,“I know that Messiah is coming”(the one called Christ);“whenever he comes, he will tell us everything.”
  • John 4:29 : 29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely he can’t be the Messiah, can he?”
  • John 4:42 : 42 They said to the woman,“No longer do we believe because of your words, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this one really is the Savior of the world.”
  • John 6:69 : 69 We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God!”
  • John 7:31 : 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?”

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