John 7:25-44

Division Over Who Jesus Is

25 At that point some of the people of Jerusalem began to ask, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?
26 Here he is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying a word to him. Have the authorities really concluded that he is the Messiah?
27 But we know where this man is from; when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from.”
28 Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. I am not here on my own authority, but he who sent me is true. You do not know him,
29 but I know him because I am from him and he sent me.”
30 At this they tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
31 Still, many in the crowd believed in him. They said, “When the Messiah comes, will he perform more signs than this man?”
32 The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering such things about him. Then the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple guards to arrest him.
33 Jesus said, “I am with you for only a short time, and then I am going to the one who sent me.
34 You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come.”
35 The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we cannot find him? Will he go where our people live scattered among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
36 What did he mean when he said, ‘You will look for me, but you will not find me,’ and ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?”
37 On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink.
38 Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”[a]
39 By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
40 On hearing his words, some of the people said, “Surely this man is the Prophet.”
41 Others said, “He is the Messiah.” Still others asked, “How can the Messiah come from Galilee?
42 Does not Scripture say that the Messiah will come from David’s descendants and from Bethlehem, the town where David lived?”
43 Thus the people were divided because of Jesus.
44 Some wanted to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.

Cross References 34

  • 1. ver 1; S Matthew 12:14
  • 2. ver 48
  • 3. John 4:29
  • 4. Matthew 13:55; Luke 4:22; John 6:42
  • 5. ver 14
  • 6. John 8:14
  • 7. John 8:26,42
  • 8. S Matthew 11:27
  • 9. S John 3:17
  • 10. ver 32,44; John 10:39
  • 11. S Matthew 26:18
  • 12. John 8:30; John 10:42; John 11:45; John 12:11,42
  • 13. S John 2:11
  • 14. John 12:35; John 13:33; John 16:16
  • 15. Jn 16:5,10,17,28
  • 16. ver 36; John 8:21; John 13:33
  • 17. S James 1:1
  • 18. John 12:20; Acts 17:4; Acts 18:4; 1 Peter 1:1
  • 19. ver 34
  • 20. Leviticus 23:36
  • 21. Isaiah 55:1; Revelation 22:17
  • 22. S John 3:15
  • 23. Isaiah 58:11
  • 24. S John 4:10
  • 25. S John 4:14
  • 26. Joel 2:28; John 1:33; Acts 2:17,33
  • 27. S John 20:22
  • 28. John 12:23; John 13:31,32
  • 29. S Matthew 21:11; John 1:21
  • 30. ver 52; John 1:46
  • 31. S Matthew 1:1
  • 32. Micah 5:2; Matthew 2:5,6; Luke 2:4
  • 33. John 6:52; John 9:16; John 10:19
  • 34. ver 30

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Or "me. And let anyone drink" 38"who believes in me.” As Scripture has said, “Out of him" (or "them" ) "will flow rivers of living water.”"
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