When Christ Comes

When Christ comes, will He do more?

JOHN 7 COMMENTARY ◄
John 7:24 Do Not Judge

John 7:25-31 When Christ Comes

John 7:32-36 Pharisees

JOHN 7:25-26 25 Then some of them from Jerusalem said, “Is this not He whom they seek to kill? 26 But look! He speaks publicly, and they say nothing to Him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is truly the Christ?

Who vindicated Jesus' assertion of a murder plot against Him?
Some in the crowd who were “from Jerusalem” (John 7:25), where the Jewish “rulers” (John 7:26) lived. Not everyone in the crowd were visitors to the Feast of Tabernacles. Some were locals to whom the murder plot apparently had leaked and who now wondered if the rulers' silence amounted to their recognition of Jesus as the “Christ” (John 7:26).

JOHN 7:27 27 “However, we know where this Man is from; but when the Christ comes, no one knows where He is from.”

How many errors are in their statement in John 7:27?
Two.

What is one of them?
Their claim, “when the Christ comes, no one knows where He is from” (John 7:27) is false since prophet Micah had prophesied that the “One to be Ruler” will come from “Bethlehem,” which was also called “Ephrathah”: “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, out of you shall come forth to Me the One to be Ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from of old, from eternity” (Micah 5:2).

What is the other error?
Although Jesus was from Galilee, where they thought He had been born, His birthplace was Bethlehem.

JOHN 7:28-29 28 Then Jesus shouted as He taught in the temple, saying, “You both know Me, and you know where I am from; and I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true, whom you do not know. 29 But I know Him because I am from Him, and He sent Me.”

Does Jesus tell them His hometown?
He skips over that and reveals His real origin, which isn't an earthly place, but with God the Father in heaven.

JOHN 7:30-31 30 Then they sought to take Him, but no one laid a hand on Him because His hour had not yet come. 31 And many from the crowd believed in Him, and said, “When the Christ comes, will He do more signs than these which this Man has done?”

Why couldn’t the Jews “take Him” (John 7:30)?
“Because His hour had not yet come” (John 7:30).

Who will determine that hour?
God already had it determined.