John 7:26-50

²⁶And lo, he speaketh openly, and they say nothing unto him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is the Christ?

²⁷Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when the Christ cometh, no one knoweth whence he is.

²⁸Jesus 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 not.

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

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

³¹But 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 done?

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

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

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

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

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

³⁷Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink.

³⁸He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, from within him shall flow rivers of living water.

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

⁴⁰Some of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, This is of a truth the prophet.

⁴¹Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, What, doth the Christ come out of Galilee?

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

⁴³So there arose a division in the multitude because of him.

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

⁴⁵The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why did ye not bring him?

⁴⁶The officers answered, Never man so spake.

⁴⁷The Pharisees therefore answered them, Are ye also led astray?

⁴⁸Hath any of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees?

⁴⁹But this multitude that knoweth not the law are accursed.

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