John 7:37–45
37Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out,“If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!↗
38He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”↗
39But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified.↗
40Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, “This is truly the prophet.”↗
41Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?↗
42Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”↗
43So a division arose in the multitude because of him.↗
44Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.↗
45The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him?”↗
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