John 7:38-50

³⁸He who believes in me, just as the scripture says, rivers of living water will flow from his stomach.”

³⁹But he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him would receive; the Spirit had not yet been given because Jesus was not yet glorified.

⁴⁰Some of the crowd, when they heard these words, said, “This is indeed the prophet.”

⁴¹Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “Does the Christ come from Galilee?

⁴²Have the scriptures not said that the Christ will come from the descendants of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”

⁴³So there arose a division in the crowds because of him.

⁴⁴Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.

⁴⁵Then the officers came back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why did you not bring him?”

⁴⁶The officers answered, “Never has anyone spoken like this.”

⁴⁷So the Pharisees answered them, “Have you also been deceived?

⁴⁸Have any of the rulers believed in him, or any of the Pharisees?

⁴⁹But this crowd that does not know the law, they are cursed.”

⁵⁰Nicodemus (one of the Pharisees, who came to him earlier) said to them,