John 7:32-45

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

33Then Jesus said, “I will be with you for only a little while longer, and then I am going to the one who sent me.

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

35Then the Jewish leaders said to one another, “Where is he going to go that we cannot find him? He is not going to go to the Jewish people dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?

36What did he mean by saying, ‘You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come’?”

37On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, Jesus stood up and shouted out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and

38let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says, ‘From within him will flow rivers of living water.’”

39(Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

40When they heard these words, some of the crowd began to say, “This really is the Prophet!”

41Others said, “This is the Christ!” But still others said, “No, for the Christ doesn’t come from Galilee, does he?

42Don’t the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant of David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”

43So there was a division in the crowd because of Jesus.

44Some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.

45Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him back with you?”