The Apostle John records some crowd dialogue in 7:25-27 of his gospel:
At that point some of the people of Jerusalem began to ask, "Isn't this the man they are trying to kill? Here he is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying a word to him. Have the authorities really concluded that he is the Christ? But we know where this man is from; when the Christ comes, no one will know where he is from."
My Study Bible has this note: "Some Jews held that the OT gave the origin of the Messiah, but others believed it did not."
Some Jews were wrong and some were right. But all of them believed they were right in their own interpretation of what the Bible said.
When we settle on a "correct" interpretation of any Bible passage, a good amount of humility is called for.
And even if you believe in the inerrancy of Scripture (which I recommend!), we must never lose sight of the distinction between Scripture and our interpretation of Scripture.
The first is inerrant. The second is not.
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