John 7:31-41

31 Yet ¹many of the people believed in him. They said, ²"When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?"

Officers Sent to Arrest Jesus

32 The Pharisees heard the crowd ³muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent ⁴officers to arrest him.

33 Jesus then said, ⁵"I will be with you a little longer, and then ⁶I am going to him who sent me.

34 ⁷You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come."

35 The Jews said to one another, "Where does this man intend to go that we will not find him? ⁸Does he intend to go to ⁹the Dispersion among ¹⁰the Greeks and teach the Greeks?

36 What does he mean by saying, ¹¹'You will seek me and you will not find me,' and, 'Where I am you cannot come'?"

Rivers of Living Water

37 ¹²On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, ¹³"If anyone thirsts, let him ¹⁴come to me and drink.

38 Whoever believes in me, ¹⁵as^[a] the Scripture has said, ¹⁶'Out of his heart will flow rivers of ¹⁷living water.'"

39 Now ¹⁸this he said about the Spirit, ¹⁹whom those who believed in him were to receive, ²⁰for as yet the Spirit had not been ²¹given, ²²because Jesus was not yet glorified.

Division Among the People

40 When they heard these words, ²³some of the people said, "This really is ²⁴the Prophet."

41 Others said, "This is ²⁵the Christ." But some said, ²⁶"Is the Christ to come from Galilee?

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Cross References 26

1. John 8:30; John 10:42; John 11:45; John 12:11; [John 2:23; John 12:42; Matthew 21:11]
2. Matthew 12:23
3. ver. 12
4. ver. 45, 46
5. John 12:35; John 13:33; John 14:19; John 16:16-19
6. John 16:5
7. John 8:21; John 13:33
8. [John 8:22]
9. James 1:1; 1 Peter 1:1; [Isaiah 11:12; Zephaniah 3:10]
10. John 12:20
11. ver. 34
12. Leviticus 23:36; Numbers 29:35; Nehemiah 8:18
13. Isaiah 55:1; See John 4:14
14. See John 6:35
15. [Isaiah 12:3; Ezekiel 47:1]
16. John 4:14; [Proverbs 18:4]
17. See John 4:10
18. Isaiah 44:3; [1 Corinthians 12:13; Galatians 3:14]
19. Joel 2:28; Acts 2:16-18; [John 1:33; John 20:22; Luke 24:49]
20. Acts 2:4, 33
21. John 3:34; Luke 11:13
22. John 14:16, 17; John 16:7
23. See ver. 31
24. John 1:21; John 6:14; See Matthew 21:11
25. ver. 26
26. [ver. 52; John 1:46]

Footnotes 1

[a]. Or let him come to me, and let him who believes in me drink. As

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