John:7:25-44

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* Then some of the people of Jerusalem said , »Is not this the man whom they seek to kill ? * Here he is , speaking publicly , and they say nothing to him ! Can it be that the authorities really know that he is the Christ ? * But we know where this man is from ; when the Christ comes , no one will know where he is from .« * Then Jesus cried out , as he taught in the temple , »You know me , and you know where I am from ; and I have not come on my own , but he who sent me is true , and him you do not know . * But I know him , for I am from him , and he sent me .« * Then they sought to take him ; but no one laid a hand on him , because his hour had not yet come . * And many of the people believed in him , and they said , »When the Christ comes , will he do more signs than this man has done ?« * The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him , and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to arrest him . * Then Jesus said to them , »I shall be with you a little while longer , and then I go to him who sent me . * You will seek me , and you will not find me ; where I am you cannot come .« * The Jews said to one another , »Where does this man intend to go that we shall not find him ? Does he intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks ? * What does he mean when he said , ‘You will seek me and you will not find me ,’ and , ‘Where I am you cannot come ’?« * On the last day , that great day of the feast , Jesus stood and cried out , »If anyone thirsts , let him come to me and drink . * He who believes in me , as the Scripture has said , out of his heart will flow rivers of living water .« * Now this he said about the Spirit , whom those who believed in him were to receive ; for as yet the Spirit had not been given , because Jesus was not yet glorified . * When they heard these words , some of the people said , »Surely this is the prophet .« * Others said , »This is the Christ .« But some said , »Will the Christ come from Galilee ? * Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes from David , and from Bethlehem , the town where David was ?« * So there was a division among the people because of him . * Some of them wanted to seize him , but no one laid hands on him .

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