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Hey friends, I'm Rachel Grohl and I'm your host for the Hearing Jesus podcast where I help you to know God and to make him known.

Have you ever found yourself in the middle of a situation where everyone around you is divided?

There may be some people who are convinced that you're right, other people that are convinced that you're wrong, and you're kind of left in

the middle trying to figure out how to navigate the tension. Well, that's exactly what's happening

in this second part of John chapter 7. Again, we're doing this in three episodes. The crowds in

Jerusalem are divided over Jesus. Some of them are beginning to suspect that he might

actually be the Messiah. And then others are completely clinging to this tradition because he looks

different than what they suspected or expected him to be. Meanwhile, the religious leaders continue to threaten and plot to silence him

permanently. And so today we're talking about things like confusion and division and pressure.

And we're going to see how Jesus navigates that public scrutiny and he does it with authority.

He speaks truth even when people misunderstand him. There's something to that because it reveals the kind of faith and

discernment that God calls us to as well. And so I'm going to be reading John chapter 7 verses 25 through 44.

So some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, is this man not the one whom they are seeking to kill?

And yet look, he is speaking publicly and they are saying nothing to him. The rulers do not know that this is the Christ, do they?

However, we know where this man is from, but when the Christ comes, no one knows where he is from.

Then Jesus cried out in the temple teaching and 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 I do know him because I am from him and he sent me so they

were seeking to arrest him and yet no one laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet

come but many of the crowd believed in him and they were saying,

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