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The Jews therefore said to one another, "Where is he about to betake himself, so that we shall not find him? Will he betake himself to the Dispersion among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?
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What do those words of his mean, `You will look for me, but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come'?"
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On the last day of the Festival--the great day--Jesus stood up and cried aloud. "Whoever is thirsty," He said, "let him come to me and drink.
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He who believes in me, from within him--as the Scripture has said--rivers of living water shall flow."
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He referred to the Spirit which those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not bestowed as yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
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After listening to these discourses, some of the crowd began to say, "This is beyond doubt the Prophet."
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Others said, "He is the Christ." But others again, "Not so, for is the Christ to come from Galilee?
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Has not the Scripture declared that the Christ is to come of the family of David and from Bethlehem, David's village?"
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So there was a violent dissension among the people on His account.
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Some of them wanted at once to arrest Him, but no one laid hands upon Him.
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Meanwhile the officers returned to the High Priests and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why have you not brought him?"
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"No mere man has ever spoken as this man speaks," said the officers.
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"Are *you* deluded too?" replied the Pharisees;