John 7:24-44

²⁴Judge not according to sight, but judge righteous judgment.

²⁵Some therefore of those of Jerusalem said, Is not this he whom they seek to kill?

²⁶and behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers then indeed recognised that this is the Christ?

²⁷But as to this man we know whence he is. Now as to the Christ, when he comes, no one knows whence he is.

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

²⁹I know him, because I am from him, and he has sent me.

³⁰They sought therefore to take him; and no one laid his hand upon him, because his hour had not yet come.

³¹But many of the crowd believed on him, and said, Will the Christ, when he comes, do more signs than those which this man has done?

³²The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things concerning him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers that they might take him.

³³Jesus therefore said, Yet a little while I am with you, and I go to him that has sent me.

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

³⁵The Jews therefore said to one another, Where is he about to go that we shall not find him? Is he about to go to the dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

³⁶What word is this which he said, Ye shall seek me and shall not find me; and where I am ye cannot come?

³⁷In the last, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried saying, If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink.

³⁸He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

³⁹But this he said concerning the Spirit, which they that believed on him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

⁴⁰Some out of the crowd therefore, having heard this word, said, This is truly the prophet.

⁴¹Others said, This is the Christ. Others said, Does then the Christ come out of Galilee?

⁴²Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from the village of Bethlehem, where David was?

⁴³There was a division therefore in the crowd on account of him.

⁴⁴But some of them desired to take him, but no one laid hands upon him.