John 7:20-39

²⁰The crowd answered and said, “You must have a demon! Who wants to kill you?”

²¹Jesus answered and said to them: “I did one work, and you all marvel.

²²Consider this: Moses gave you circumcision (not that it comes from Moses, but from the patriarchs), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

²³If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath, so that the Law of Moses won't be broken, are you angry at me because I made a whole man well on the Sabbath?

²⁴Stop judging on the basis of appearances, but judge the righteous judgment.”

²⁵Now some of the Jerusalemites were saying: “Isn't this the man they are wanting to kill?

²⁶Yet look! He is speaking openly and they are saying nothing to Him. Could it be true that the rulers know that this is really the Christ?

²⁷On the other hand, we know where this man is from; but whenever the Christ comes nobody knows where He is from.”

²⁸So Jesus called out in the temple, teaching and saying: “You do know me, and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on my own, but the One who sent me is true, whom you do not know.

²⁹I do know Him because I am from Him, and He sent me.”

³⁰So they tried to arrest Him, yet no one laid a hand on Him because His hour had not yet come.

³¹Now many of the crowd were believing into Him, and they were saying, “Whenever the Christ comes He won't perform more signs than these which this man has done, will He?”

³²The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about Him, so the Pharisees and the chief priests sent operatives to arrest Him.

³³Then Jesus said: “For a little while I am still with you, and then I go to the One who sent me.

³⁴You will look for me and not find me; also, where I am you cannot come.”

³⁵So the Jews said among themselves: “Where does this fellow intend to go that we won't find him? He doesn't intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, does he?

³⁶What word is this that he spoke, ‘You will look for me and not find me’; also, ‘where I am you cannot come’?”

³⁷Now on the last and most important day of the Feast, Jesus stood up and called out saying: “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.

³⁸The one believing into me, just as the Scripture has said, out from his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.”

³⁹(Now He said this about the Spirit, whom those believing into Him were going to receive, in that the Holy Spirit had not yet been given because Jesus had not yet been glorified.)