John 7:37-51

³⁷On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and shouted out in a loud voice, “If you're thirsty, come to me and drink.

³⁸If you trust in me, you will have streams of life-giving water flowing out from within you, as Scripture says.”

³⁹He was referring to the Spirit that those who trusted in him would later receive. The Spirit hadn't been given yet because Jesus hadn't yet been glorified.

⁴⁰When they heard these words, some of the people said, “This man is definitely the Prophet!”

⁴¹Others said, “He is the Messiah!” Still others said, “How can the Messiah come from Galilee?

⁴²Doesn't Scripture say that the Messiah comes from David's lineage, and from David's home town of Bethlehem?”

⁴³So the crowd had a strong difference of opinion about him.

⁴⁴Some wanted to arrest him, but nobody laid a hand on him.

⁴⁵Then the guards returned to the chief priests and the Pharisees who asked them, “Why didn't you bring him in?”

⁴⁶“Nobody ever spoke like this man does,” the guards replied.

⁴⁷“Have you been fooled too?” the Pharisees asked them.

⁴⁸“Has a single one of the rulers or Pharisees believed in him? No!

⁴⁹But this crowd that knows nothing about teachings of the law—they're damned anyway!”

⁵⁰Nicodemus, who had previously gone to meet Jesus, was one of them and asked them,

⁵¹“Does our law condemn a man without a hearing and without finding out what he actually did?”