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John 7:15
and the Jews were wondering, saying, `How hath this one known letters--not having learned?'
John 7:15 · Young's Literal Translation
John 7:15 in other translations
And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?
The Jews were amazed and asked, “How did this man attain such learning without having studied?”
The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How does this man know letters, having never been educated?”
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In context
12 and there was much murmuring about him among the multitudes, some indeed said--`He is good;' and others said, `No, but he leadeth astray the multitude;'
13 no one, however, was speaking freely about him, through fear of the Jews.
14 And it being now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up to the temple, and he was teaching,
15 and the Jews were wondering, saying, `How hath this one known letters--not having learned?'
16 Jesus answered them and said, `My teaching is not mine, but His who sent me;
17 if any one may will to do His will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God, or--I do speak from myself.
18 `He who is speaking from himself his own glory doth seek, but he who is seeking the glory of him who sent him, this one is true, and unrighteousness is not in him;
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