John 7:32-45

32The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about him, and so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent servants to arrest him.

33Then Jesus said, “I am only with you for a short time. Then I’m going to the one who sent me.

34You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come.”

35Then the Jews said to one another, “Where does he intend to go that we won’t find him? He doesn’t intend to go to the Jewish people dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, does he?

36What is this remark he made: ‘You will look for me, and you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come’?”

37On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.

38The one who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, will have streams of living water flow from deep within him.”

39He said this about the Spirit. Those who believed in Jesus were going to receive the Spirit, for the Spirit had not yet been given because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

40When some from the crowd heard these words, they said, “This truly is the Prophet.”

41Others said, “This is the Messiah.” But some said, “Surely the Messiah doesn’t come from Galilee, does he?

42Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Messiah comes from David’s offspring and from the town of Bethlehem, where David lived?”

43So the crowd was divided because of him.

44Some of them wanted to seize him, but no one laid hands on him.

45Then the servants came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring him?”