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Whoever puts his trust in me, as the Scripture says, rivers of living water will flow from his inmost being!"
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(Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who trusted in him were to receive later -- the Spirit had not yet been given, because Yeshua had not yet been glorified.)
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On hearing his words, some people in the crowd said, "Surely this man is `the prophet'";
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others said, "This is the Messiah." But others said, "How can the Messiah come from the Galil?
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Doesn't the Tanakh say that the Messiah is from the seed of Davidf and comes from Beit-Lechem,g the village where David lived?"
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So the people were divided because of him.
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Some wanted to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him.
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The guards came back to the head cohanim and the P'rushim, who asked them, "Why didn't you bring him in?"
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The guards replied, "No one ever spoke the way this man speaks!"
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"You mean you've been taken in as well?" the P'rushim retorted.
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"Has any of the authorities trusted him? Or any of the P'rushim? No!