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34 You'll look for me but won't find me. And where I am, you cannot come.| 35 Then the Jewish leaders asked one another, |Where does this man intend to go that we won't be able to find him? Surely he's not going to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he? 36 What does this statement mean that he said, 'You'll look for me but won't find me,' and, 'Where I am, you cannot come'?| 37 On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and shouted, |If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! 38 The one who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, will have rivers of living water flowing from his heart.| 39 Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who were believing in him were to receive, because the Spirit was not yet present and Jesus had not yet been glorified. 40 When they heard these words, some in the crowd were saying, |This really is the Prophet,| 41 while others were saying, |This is the Messiah!| But some were saying, |The Messiah doesn't come from Galilee, does he? 42 Doesn't the Scripture say that the Messiah is from David's family and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?| 43 So there was a division in the crowd because of him. 44 Some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid hands on him. 45 Then the officers returned to the high priests and Pharisees, who asked them, |Why didn't you bring him?| 46 The officers answered, |No man ever spoke like that!| 47 Then the Pharisees replied to them, |You haven't been deceived, too, have you? 48 None of the authorities or Pharisees has believed in him, have they? 49 But this mob that does not know the Law—they're under a curse!| 50 One of their own, Nicodemus (the man who had previously met with Jesus), asked them, 51 |Surely our Law does not condemn a person without first hearing from him and finding out what he is doing, does it?| 52 They answered him, |You aren't from Galilee, too, are you? Search and see that no prophet comes from Galilee.| 53 Then all of them went to their own homes. John 7:34-53, Intl. Standard Version. Copyright © 1995-2014 by ISV Foundation.
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