³³Jesus said, “I am with you for only a short time. Then I will go to the One who sent me. ³⁴You will look for me, but you won’t find me. You can’t come where I am going.”

³⁵The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man plan to go? Does he think we can’t find him? Will he go where our people live scattered among the Greeks? Will he go there to teach the Greeks? ³⁶What did he mean when he said, ‘You will look for me, but you won’t find me’? And, ‘You can’t come where I am going’?”

³⁷It was the last and most important day of the Feast. Jesus stood up and spoke in a loud voice. He said, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. ³⁸Does anyone believe in me? Then, just as Scripture says, streams of living water will flow from inside him.”

³⁹When he said this, he meant the Holy Spirit. Those who believed in Jesus would receive the Spirit later. Up to that time, the Spirit had not been given. This was because Jesus had not yet received glory.

⁴⁰When some of the people heard his words, they said, “This man must be the Prophet we’ve been expecting.”

⁴¹Others said, “He is the Christ.”

Still others asked, “How can the Christ come from Galilee? ⁴²Doesn’t Scripture say that the Christ will come from David’s family? Doesn’t it say that he will come from Bethlehem, the town where David lived?”

⁴³So the people did not agree about who Jesus was. ⁴⁴Some wanted to arrest him. But no one laid a hand on him.

The Jewish Leaders Do Not Believe

⁴⁵Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and the Pharisees. They asked the guards, “Why didn’t you bring him in?”

⁴⁶“No one ever spoke the way this man does,” the guards replied.

⁴⁷“You mean he has fooled you also?” the Pharisees asked. ⁴⁸“Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in him? ⁴⁹No! But this mob knows nothing about the law. There is a curse on them.”

⁵⁰Then Nicodemus, a Pharisee, spoke. He was the one who had gone to Jesus earlier. He asked, ⁵¹“Does our law find someone guilty without hearing him first? Doesn’t it want to find out what he is doing?”

⁵²They replied, “Are you from Galilee too? Look into it. You will find that a prophet does not come out of Galilee.”

⁵³Then each of them went home.

8But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

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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.’”