John 7:34-44

34 ¹You 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? ²Does he intend to go to ³the Dispersion among ⁴the Greeks and teach the Greeks?

36 What does he mean by saying, ⁵'You will seek me and you will not find me,' and, 'Where I am you cannot come'?"

Rivers of Living Water

37 ⁶On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, ⁷"If anyone thirsts, let him ⁸come to me and drink.

38 Whoever believes in me, ⁹as^[a] the Scripture has said, ¹⁰'Out of his heart will flow rivers of ¹¹living water.'"

39 Now ¹²this he said about the Spirit, ¹³whom those who believed in him were to receive, ¹⁴for as yet the Spirit had not been ¹⁵given, ¹⁶because Jesus was not yet glorified.

Division Among the People

40 When they heard these words, ¹⁷some of the people said, "This really is ¹⁸the Prophet."

41 Others said, "This is ¹⁹the Christ." But some said, ²⁰"Is the Christ to come from Galilee?

42 Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes ²¹from the offspring of David, and comes ²²from Bethlehem, the village ²³where David was?"

43 So there was ²⁴a division among the people over him.

44 ²⁵Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.