Rivers of Living Water

³⁷yOn the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, z“If anyone thirsts, let him acome to me and drink. ³⁸Whoever believes in me, bas6 the Scripture has said, c‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of dliving water.’” ³⁹Now ethis he said about the Spirit, fwhom those who believed in him were to receive, gfor as yet the Spirit had not been hgiven, ibecause Jesus was not yet glorified.

Division Among the People

⁴⁰When they heard these words, jsome of the people said, “This really is kthe Prophet.” ⁴¹Others said, “This is lthe Christ.” But some said, m“Is the Christ to come from Galilee? ⁴²Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes nfrom the offspring of David, and comes ofrom Bethlehem, the village pwhere David was?” ⁴³So there was qa division among the people over him. ⁴⁴rSome of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.

⁴⁵sThe officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why did you not bring him?” ⁴⁶The officers answered, t“No one ever spoke like this man!” ⁴⁷The Pharisees answered them, u“Have you also been deceived? ⁴⁸vHave any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him? ⁴⁹But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.” ⁵⁰wNicodemus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them, ⁵¹x“Does our law judge a man without first ygiving him a hearing and learning what he does?” ⁵²They replied, z“Are you from Galilee too? Search and see that ano prophet arises from Galilee.”

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