‘Yet many of the crowds of people believed in him, and they said, ‘When the Messiah appears, will he perform more signs than those which this man has done?'

So the whole of Jerusalem seemed to be talking about Jesus, with many differing views being voiced. And many believed that He was the Messiah. These believed in Him as the Messiah because of the signs that they had witnessed, but they were not yet the kind of believers that Jesus was wanting. They were not committed to His teaching, only to a hope that He might be the long awaited Messiah. The writer wants his readers, however, to be aware of the numerous signs that Jesus has done, and of a general expectancy that He was the Messiah.

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