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What is he talking about, anyway: 'You will look for me, but you won't find me,' and 'Where I am, you can't come'?"
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On the final and climactic day of the Feast, Jesus took his stand. He cried out, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.
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Rivers of living water will brim and spill out of the depths of anyone who believes in me this way, just as the Scripture says."
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(He said this in regard to the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were about to receive. The Spirit had not yet been given because Jesus had not yet been glorified.)
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Those in the crowd who heard these words were saying, "This has to be the Prophet."
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Others said, "He is the Messiah!" But others were saying, "The Messiah doesn't come from Galilee, does he?
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Don't the Scriptures tell us that the Messiah comes from David's line and from Bethlehem, David's village?"
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So there was a split in the crowd over him.
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Some went so far as wanting to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him.
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That's when the Temple police reported back to the high priests and Pharisees, who demanded, "Why didn't you bring him with you?"
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The police answered, "Have you heard the way he talks? We've never heard anyone speak like this man."