John 7:34-53 ▼

34 You will seek me, but won't find; and where I am, you cannot come.|

35 The Jewish leaders therefore said among themselves, |Where will this man go that we won't find him? Will he go to the Diaspora among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

36 What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, but won't find; and where I am, you cannot come'?|

37 Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, |If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.

38 He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.|

39 But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

40 Some of the crowd therefore, when they heard these words, said, |This is truly the Prophet.|

41 Others said, |This is the Christ.| But some said, |What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?

42 Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?|

43 So there arose a division in the crowd because of him.

44 Some of them would have arrested 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, |No man ever spoke like this man.|

47 The Pharisees therefore answered them, |You are not also led astray, are you?

48 Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

49 But this crowd that does not know the Law is accursed.|

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

51 |Does our Law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?|

52 They answered him, |Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet comes from Galilee.|

53 Then everyone went to his own house,