John 7:34-53 ▼

34 “You shall seek Me, and shall not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”

35 The Jews therefore said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we shall not find Him? He is not intending to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks, is He?

36 “What is this statement that He said, ‘You will seek Me, and will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come’?”

37 Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If any man is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.

38 “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water.’”

39 But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

40 Some of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, were saying, “This certainly is the Prophet.”

41 Others were saying, “This is the Christ.” Still others were saying, “Surely the Christ is not going to come from Galilee, is He?

42 “Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”

43 So there arose a division in the multitude because of Him.

44 And some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid hands on Him.

45 The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why did you not bring Him?”

46 The officers answered, “Never did a man speak the way this man speaks.”

47 The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You have not also been led astray, have you?

48 “No one of the rulers or Pharisees has believed in Him, has he?

49 “But this multitude which does not know the Law is accursed.”

50 Nicodemus said to them (he who came to Him before, being one of them),

51 “Our Law does not judge a man, unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, does it?”

52 They answered and said to him, “You are not also from Galilee, are you? Search, and see that no prophet arises out of Galilee.”

53 [And everyone went to his home.