John 7:35-45

35 The Jews said to one another, "Where does this man intend to go that we will not find him? ¹Does he intend to go to ²the Dispersion among ³the Greeks and teach the Greeks?

36 What does he mean by saying, ⁴'You will seek me and you will not find me,' and, 'Where I am you cannot come'?"

Rivers of Living Water

37 ⁵On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, ⁶"If anyone thirsts, let him ⁷come to me and drink.

38 Whoever believes in me, ⁸as^[a] the Scripture has said, ⁹'Out of his heart will flow rivers of ¹⁰living water.'"

39 Now ¹¹this he said about the Spirit, ¹²whom those who believed in him were to receive, ¹³for as yet the Spirit had not been ¹⁴given, ¹⁵because Jesus was not yet glorified.

Division Among the People

40 When they heard these words, ¹⁶some of the people said, "This really is ¹⁷the Prophet."

41 Others said, "This is ¹⁸the Christ." But some said, ¹⁹"Is the Christ to come from Galilee?

42 Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes ²⁰from the offspring of David, and comes ²¹from Bethlehem, the village ²²where David was?"

43 So there was ²³a division among the people over him.

44 ²⁴Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.

45 ²⁵The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, "Why did you not bring him?"