John 7:36-50

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.

⁴⁵The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, Why have ye not brought him?

⁴⁶The officers answered, Never man spoke thus, as this man speaks.

⁴⁷The Pharisees therefore answered them, Are ye also deceived?

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

⁴⁹But this crowd, which does not know the law, are accursed.

⁵⁰Nicodemus says to them (being one of themselves),