³²The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers in order to take him into custody .^g ³³Then Jesus said, “Yet a little time I am with you, and I am going to the one who sent me. ³⁴You will seek me and will not find me,^*^h and where I am, you cannot come.”

³⁵So the Jews said to one another, “Where is this one going to go, that we will not find him? He is not going to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?^* ³⁶What is this saying that he said, ‘You will seek me and will not find me,^*ⁱ and where I am, you cannot come’?”

The Promise of the Spirit

³⁷Now on the last day of the feast—the great day—Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and let him drink, ³⁸the one who believes in me.^j Just as the scripture said, ‘Out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.’ ”^k ³⁹(Now he said this concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were about to receive. For the Spirit was not yet given,^l because Jesus had not yet been glorified.)

Different Opinions About Jesus

⁴⁰Then, when they^* heard these words, some from the crowd began to say,^* “This man is truly the Prophet!” ⁴¹Others were saying, “This man is the Christ!” But others were saying, “No, for the Christ does not come from Galilee, does he?^* ⁴²Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes from the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?” ⁴³So there was a division in the crowd because of him. ⁴⁴And some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid hands on him.

⁴⁵So the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees. And they said to them, “Why^m did you not bring him?” ⁴⁶The officers replied, “Never has a man spoken like this!” ⁴⁷Then the Pharisees replied to them, “You have not also been deceived, have you?^* ⁴⁸Noneⁿ of the rulers or of the Pharisees have believed in him, have they?^* ⁴⁹But this crowd who does not know the law is accursed!”

⁵⁰Nicodemus, the one who came to him previously—who was one of them—said to them, ⁵¹“Our law does not condemn a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, does it?”^* ⁵²They answered and said to him, “You are not also from Galilee, are you?^* Investigate and see that a prophet does not arise from Galilee!” ⟦⁵³And each one went to his own house.^o

A Woman Caught in Adultery

8But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

Read in Logos

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.’”

Footnotes

gLiterally “that they could seize him”
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
hSome manuscripts explicitly state “me”
*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “is he”
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
iSome manuscripts explicitly state “me”
jAn alternative punctuation of vv. 37–38 reads: “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and let him drink. 38 The one who believes in me, just as the scripture said, ‘Out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.’ ”
kA quotation from the Old Testament of uncertain origin; texts most often suggested are Isa 44:3; 55:1; 58:11; Zech 14:8
lA few manuscripts supply the participle “given” here; while it is unlikely this represents the original reading, many English versions nevertheless supply “given” to avoid the impression that the Spirit did not exist prior to this point
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal
*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to say”)
*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “does he”
mLiterally “because of what”
*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “have you”
nLiterally “not anyone”
*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “have they”
*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “does it”
*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “are you”
o John 7:53–8:11 is not found in the earliest and best manuscripts and was almost certainly not an original part of the Gospel of John; one significant group of Greek manuscripts places it after Luke 21:38