John 7:32–53

Christ’s Departure to the Father

³²The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things concerning Him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take Him. ³³Then Jesus said ⁶to them, ^m“I shall be with you a little while longer, and then I ⁿgo to Him who sent Me. ³⁴You ^owill seek Me and not find Me, and where I am you ^pcannot come.”

³⁵Then the Jews said among themselves, “Where does He intend to go that we shall not find Him? Does He intend to go to ^qthe Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks? ³⁶What is this thing that He said, ‘You will seek Me and not find Me, and where I am you cannot come’?”

Christ Reveals the “Living Water”

^37rOn the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, ^s“If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. ^38tHe who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, ^uout of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” ^39vBut this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those ⁷believing in Him would receive; for the ⁸Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet ^wglorified.

Israel is Divided over Christ

⁴⁰Therefore ⁹many from the crowd, when they heard this saying, said, “Truly this is ^xthe Prophet.” ⁴¹Others said, “This is ^ythe Christ.”

But some said, “Will the Christ come out of Galilee? ^42zHas not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem, ^awhere David was?” ⁴³So ^bthere was a division among the people because of Him. ⁴⁴Now ^csome of them wanted to take Him, but no one laid hands on Him.

The Sanhedrin is Confused Over Christ

⁴⁵Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why have you not brought Him?”

⁴⁶The officers answered, ^d“No man ever spoke like this Man!”

⁴⁷Then the Pharisees answered them, “Are you also deceived? ⁴⁸Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in Him? ⁴⁹But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.”

⁵⁰Nicodemus ^e(he who came to ¹Jesus ²by night, being one of them) said to them, ^51f“Does our law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing?”

⁵²They answered and said to him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and look, for ^gno prophet ³has arisen out of Galilee.”

⁵³⁴And everyone went to his own house.

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