John 7:32-52

³²The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about Jesus, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to seize Him.

³³Then Jesus told them, “I will be with you a little while longer, and then I am going to Him who sent me.

³⁴You will look for me, and not find me, and where I am, you can’t come.”

³⁵Then the Jews said among themselves, “Where does He intend to go that we won’t be able to find Him? He doesn’t intend to go to the dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, does He?

³⁶What does He mean by saying, ‘You will look for me, and not find me, and where I am, you can’t come’?”

³⁷On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and declared loudly, “If anyone is thirsty, let that person come to me and drink.

³⁸Rivers of living water will flow from within whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said.”

³⁹He said this about the Spirit, who those believing in Him would receive. The Holy Spirit wasn’t yet given, because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified.

⁴⁰When they heard these words, many in the crowd were saying, “This is really the prophet.”

⁴¹Others were saying, “This is the Christ,” but some were saying, “Surely the Christ isn’t going to come from Galilee, is He?

⁴²Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem, where David was?”

⁴³So there was a division among the crowd because of Jesus.

⁴⁴Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid hands on Him.

⁴⁵When the officers went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, they asked them, “Why didn’t you bring Him in?”

⁴⁶The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!”

⁴⁷Then the Pharisees answered, “You haven’t been deceived, too, have you?

⁴⁸Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?

⁴⁹But this accursed crowd doesn’t know the Law.”

⁵⁰Nicodemus (who came to Jesus before, being one of them) asked them,

⁵¹“Does our Law permit us to judge a man before hearing him and finding out what he is doing?”

⁵²They answered him, “You aren’t from Galilee, too, are you? Search and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.”