³⁴You will search for me, but you will not find me, and where I am, you cannot come.”^* ³⁵The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we will not find him? Does he intend to go to the dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?^* ³⁶What does he mean by saying, ‘You will search for me, but you will not find me’ and ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?”

Rivers of Living Water

³⁷On the last day of the festival, the great day, while Jesus was standing there, he cried out, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me,^* ³⁸and let the one who believes in me drink. As^q the scripture has said, ‘Out of the believer’s heart^r shall flow rivers of living water.’ ”^* ³⁹Now he said this about the Spirit, which believers in him were to receive, for as yet there was no Spirit^s because Jesus was not yet glorified.^*

Division among the People

⁴⁰When they heard these words, some in the crowd said, “This is really the prophet.” ⁴¹Others said, “This is the Messiah.”^t But some asked, “Surely the Messiah^u does not come from Galilee, does he?^* ⁴²Has not the scripture said that the Messiah^v is descended from David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”^* ⁴³So there was a division in the crowd because of him. ⁴⁴Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.

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

qOr come to me and drink. 38The one who believes in me, as
rGk out of his belly
sOther ancient authorities read for as yet the Spirit (others, Holy Spirit) had not been given
tOr the Christ
uOr the Christ
vOr the Christ

Cross references

*Jn 8:21; 13:33
*Jas 1:1; 1 Pet 1:1
*Lev 23:36; Isa 55:1; Rev 22:17
*Isa 12:3; Jn 4:10, 14
*Joel 2:28; Jn 12:23; 20:22; Acts 2:17, 33
*Jn 1:46
*Jer 23:5; Mic 5:2; Mt 2:5; Lk 2:4