35 Then the Jews said among themselves, “Where does He intend to go that we shall not find Him? Does He intend to go to athe Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?
36 What is this thing that He said, ‘You will seek Me and not find Me, and where I am you cannot come’?”
The Promise of the Holy Spirit
37aOn the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, b“If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.
38aHe who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, bout of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”
39aBut this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those1 believing in Him would receive; for the2 Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet bglorified.
Who Is He?
40 Therefore1 many from the crowd, when they heard this saying, said, “Truly this is athe Prophet.”
41 Others said, “This is athe Christ.” But some said, “Will the Christ come out of Galilee?
42aHas not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem, bwhere David was?”
43 So athere was a division among the people because of Him.
44 Now asome of them wanted to take Him, but no one laid hands on Him.
Rejected by the Authorities
45 Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why have you not brought Him?”
46 The officers answered, a“No man ever spoke like this Man!”
47 Then the Pharisees answered them, “Are you also deceived?
48 Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in Him?
49 But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.”
50 Nicodemus a(he who came to Jesus by night, being one of them) said to them,
51a“Does our law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing?”
52 They answered and said to him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and look, for ano prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”
John 7:37 In the last day. Probably the eighth day, possibly the seventh. The eighth was a day of holy rest added to the seven days of the feast. If any man thirsteth, let him, etc. Jewish writers say that water was brought every day of the feast in a golden pitcher from the pool of Siloam and poured upon the altar. It is thought that it was when this water was poured out that Jesus cried out, and pointed to the living water.
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