John 7:35-53 ▼

35 Therefore the Jews said among themselves, “Where is He about to go that we will not find Him? Is He about to go to the Diaspora among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?

36 What is this word that He said, ‘You? will seek Me, and will not find Me,’ and, ‘Where I am, you? are not able to come’?”

37 Now in the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone may thirst, let him come to Me and drink.

38 The one believing in Me, as the Scripture said: ‘Out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.’”

39 Now He said this about the Spirit, whom those having believed in Him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

40 Therefore, having heard these words, some of the crowd were saying, “This is truly the Prophet.”

41 Others were saying, “This is the Christ.” But others were saying, “How indeed does the Christ come out of Galilee?

42 Did not the Scripture say that out of the seed of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David was, comes the Christ?”

43 Therefore a division happened in the crowd because of Him.

44 Now some of them were wanting to seize Him, but no one laid the hands on Him.

45 Therefore the officers 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 thus, as this man speaks!”

47 Therefore the Pharisees answered them, “Have you? also been deceived?

48 Did anyone out of the rulers or out of the Pharisees believe in Him?

49 But this crowd, not knowing the law, they are accursed.”

50 Nicodemus, the one having come to Him before, being one of them, says to them,

51 “Does our law judge the man unless it should first hear from him and know what he does?”

52 They answered and said to him, “Are you also out of Galilee? Search and see that out of Galilee a prophet is not raised.”

53 And each went to his home.