²⁶ But he is ·teaching where everyone can see and hear him [^Lspeaking publicly], and no one is ·trying to stop [^Lsaying anything to] him. Maybe the ·leaders [rulers; authorities] have ·decided [come to recognize] he really is the ·Christ [Messiah]. ²⁷ But we know where this man is from. Yet when the real ·Christ [Messiah] comes, no one will know where he comes from.” [^CSome Jewish traditions claimed the Messiah would be unknown until he came to deliver Israel.]

²⁸ Jesus, teaching in the Temple [courts; 2:14], cried out, “Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. But I have not come ·by my own authority [on my own initiative; ^Lfrom myself]. I was sent by the One who is true, whom you don’t know.