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John 7:36-52

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36What does he mean by saying ‘You will look for me, and you will not find me; and you will not be able to come where I will be’?”
37On the last and greatest day of the Festival, Jesus, who was standing by, exclaimed, “If anyone thirsts, they should come to me, and drink.
38I tell you what I have myself seen in the presence of my Father; and you, in the same way, do what you have learnt from your father.”
39(By this he meant the Spirit, which those who had believed in him were to receive; for the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been exalted.)
40Some of the people, when they heard these words, said, “This is certainly the Prophet!”;
41others said, “the Christ!”; but some asked, “What! Does the Christ come from Galilee?
42Is not it said in scripture that it is of the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village to which David belonged, that the Christ is to come?”
43So there was a sharp division amongst the people because of Jesus.
44Some of them wanted to arrest him, and yet no one touched him.
45When the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, they were asked, “Why have you not brought him?”
46“No one ever spoke as he speaks!” they answered.
47“What! Have you been led astray too?” the Pharisees replied.
48“Have any of our leading men believed in him, or any of the Pharisees?
49As for these people who do not know the Law — they are cursed!”
50But one of their number, Nicodemus, who before this had been to see Jesus, said to them,
51“Does our Law pass judgement on a person without first giving them a hearing, and finding out what they have been doing?”
52“Are you also from Galilee?” they retorted. “Search, and you will find that no prophet is to arise in Galilee!”

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