John:7:25-44

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* Some therefore of those of Jerusalem said , Is not this he whom they seek to kill ? * and behold , he speaks openly , and they say nothing to him . Have the rulers then indeed recognised that this is the Christ ? * But [as to ] this [man ] we know whence he is . Now [as to ] the Christ , when he comes , no one knows whence he is . * Jesus therefore cried out in the temple , teaching and saying , Ye both know me and ye know whence I am ; and I am not come of myself , but he that sent me is true , whom ye do not know . * I know him , because I am from him , and he has sent me . * They sought therefore to take him ; and no one laid his hand upon him , because his hour had not yet come . * But many of the crowd believed on him , and said , Will the Christ , when he comes , do more signs than those which this [man ] has done ? * The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things concerning him , and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers that they might take him . * Jesus therefore said , Yet a little while I am with you , and I go to him that has sent me . * Ye shall seek me and shall not find [me ], and where I am ye cannot come . * The Jews therefore said to one another , Where is he about to go that we shall not find him ? Is he about to go to the dispersion among the Greeks , and teach the Greeks ? * What word is this which he said , Ye shall seek me and shall not find [me ]; and where I am ye cannot come ? * In the last , the great day of the feast , Jesus stood and cried saying , If any one thirst , let him come to me and drink . * He that believes on me , as the scripture has said , out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water . * But this he said concerning the Spirit , which they that believed on him were about to receive ; for [the ] Spirit was not yet , because Jesus had not yet been glorified . * [Some ] out of the crowd therefore , having heard this word , said , This is truly the prophet . * Others said , This is the Christ . Others said , Does then the Christ come out of Galilee ? * Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David , and from the village of Bethlehem , where David was ? * There was a division therefore in the crowd on account of him . * But some of them desired to take him , but no one laid hands upon him .

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