John 7:36-50

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

³⁷But in the last day of the great feast, Jesus stood, and cried, and said, If any man thirsteth, come he to me, and drink.

³⁸He that believeth in me, as the scripture saith, Floods of quick water shall flow out of his womb.

³⁹But he said this thing of the Spirit or of the Holy Ghost, whom men that believed in him should take; for the Spirit was not yet given, for Jesus was not yet glorified.

⁴⁰Therefore of that company, when they had heard these words of him, they said, This is verily a prophet.

⁴¹Others said, This is Christ. But some said, Whether Christ cometh from Galilee?

⁴²Whether the scripture saith not, that of the seed of David, and of the castle of Bethlehem, where David was, Christ cometh?

⁴³Therefore dissension was made among the people for him.

⁴⁴And some of them would have taken him, but no man set hands on him.

⁴⁵Therefore the ministers came to the bishops, and Pharisees, and they said to them, Why brought ye not him?

⁴⁶The ministers answered, Never man spake so, as this man speaketh.

⁴⁷Therefore the Pharisees answered to them, Whether ye be deceived also?

⁴⁸whether any of the princes, or of the Pharisees believed in him?

⁴⁹But this people, that knoweth not the law, be cursed.

⁵⁰Nicodemus saith to them, he that came to him by night, that was one of them,