John 7

7:28  Jesus therefore cried in the temple, teaching and saying, Ye both know me, and know whence I am; and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not¹.

7:29  I know him; because I am from him, and he sent me¹.

7:30  They sought therefore to take him¹: and no man laid his hand on him, because his hour was not yet come².

7:31  But of the multitude many believed on him; and they said, When the Christ shall come, will he do more signs than those which this man hath done¹?

7:32  The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him; and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to take him².

7:33  Jesus therefore said, Yet a little while am I with you, and I go unto him that sent me¹.

7:34  Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me¹: and where I am, ye cannot come.

7:35  The Jews therefore said among themselves, Whither will this man go that we shall not find him¹? will he go unto the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks²?

7:37  Now on the last day¹, the great [day] of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink².

7:38  He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said¹, from within him shall flow rivers of living water².

7:39  But this spake he of the Spirit¹, which they that believed on him were to receive: for the Spirit was not yet [given]; because Jesus was not yet glorified.

7:40  [Some] of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, This is of a truth the prophet¹.

7:41  Others said, This is the Christ¹. But some said, What, doth the Christ come out of Galilee²?

7:42  Hath not the scripture said that the Christ cometh of the seed of David¹, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was²?

7:44  And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him¹.

7:45  The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees¹; and they said unto them, Why did ye not bring him²?

7:46  The officers answered, Never man so spake¹.

7:47  The Pharisees therefore answered them, Are ye also led astray¹?

7:50  Nicodemus saith unto them (he that came to him before, being one of them),

7:51  Doth our law judge a man, except it first hear from himself and know what he doeth¹?

7:52  They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee¹? Search, and see that out of Galilee ariseth no prophet².

7:53  [And they went every man unto his own house:

NOTE.--This section is wanting in nearly all older manuscripts, butJerome (A.D. 346-420) says that in his time it was contained in "manyGreek and Latin manuscripts", and these must have been as good orbetter than the best manuscripts we now possess. But whether we regardit as part of John's narrative or not, scholars very generally acceptit as a genuine piece of history.