38Just like the Scriptures teach, streams of water shall flow out from within those who believe in me, and that water will cause them to live eternally.”
39When Jesus said that, he was referring to God's Spirit, whom those who believed in Jesus would receive later. Up to that time God had not sent the Spirit to live within believers, because Jesus had not yet died and returned to his glorious home in heaven, from where he would send the Spirit.
40When some of the crowd heard those words, they said, “Surely this man is the prophet whom God promised to send who would be like Moses!”
41Others said, “He is the Messiah!” But others, thinking Jesus was born in Galilee, said, “The Messiah will not come from Galilee province, will he?
42◄Did a prophet not write in the Scriptures that the Messiah will come from King David's family, and be born in Bethlehem, where King David lived?/ It is written in the Scriptures that the Messiah will come from King David's family, and be born in Bethlehem, where King David lived!► RHQ”
43So the people were divided because of what they thought about Jesus.
44Some people wanted to seize him, but no one tried to do that.
45So the Temple guards returned to the chief priests and the Pharisees, the ones who had sent them to arrest Jesus. They said to the guards, “Why did you not seize him and bring him here?”
46They replied, “No one ever spoke such amazing things as this man does!”
47Then the Pharisees replied, “Have you been deceived {Has he deceived you}, too?
48◄None of our rulers nor any of us Pharisees have believed that ‘he is the Messiah!/he came from God!’/Have any of our Jewish rulers or any of us Pharisees believed that ‘he is the Messiah?/he came from God?’► RHQ
John 7
John 7:38-48