³⁵The Jews therefore said among themselves: Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? Will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles and teach the Gentiles?

³⁶What is this saying that he hath said: You shall seek me and shall not find me? And: Where I am, you cannot come?

³⁷And on the last, and great day of the festivity, Jesus stood and cried, saying: If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink.

³⁸He that believeth in me, as the scripture saith: Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

³⁹Now this he said of the Spirit which they should receive who believed in him: for as yet the Spirit was not given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

⁴⁰Of that multitude therefore, when they had heard these words of his, some said: This is the prophet indeed.

⁴¹Others said: This is the Christ. But some said: Doth the Christ come out of Galilee?

⁴²Doth not the scripture say: That Christ cometh of the seed of David and from Bethlehem the town where David was?

⁴³So there arose a dissension among the people because of him.

⁴⁴And some of them would have apprehended him: but no man laid hands upon him.

⁴⁵The ministers therefore came to the chief priests and the Pharisees. And they said to them: Why have you not brought him?

⁴⁶The ministers answered: Never did man speak like this man.

⁴⁷The Pharisees therefore answered them: Are you also seduced?

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

⁴⁹But this multitude, that knoweth not the law, are accursed.

⁵⁰Nicodemus said to them (he that came to him by night, who was one of them):

⁵¹Doth our law judge any man, unless it first hear him and know what he doth?

⁵²They answered and said to him: Art thou also a Galilean? Search the scriptures, and see that out of Galilee a prophet riseth not.

⁵³And every man returned to his own house.

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John 7:37–38: On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‛Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”

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