John 7:25-53

25Then some of the people from Jerusalem were saying, “Isn’t this the person they’re trying to kill?

26Look, He speaks openly and they’re saying nothing to Him. Can it be that the leaders know He is the Messiah?

27But we know where this person is from. But the Messiah, whenever He may come, no one knows where He is from.”

28Then, while teaching in the Temple courts, Yeshua cried out, “You know both who I am and where I am from! I have not come on My own, but the One who sent Me is true. You do not know Him,

29but I know Him because I am from Him and He sent Me.”

30Then they were trying to seize Him; but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.

31Yet many from the crowd believed in Him and were saying, “When the Messiah comes, He won’t perform more signs than this person has, will He?”

32The Pharisees heard people in the crowd murmuring these things about Him, and the ruling kohanim and Pharisees sent guards to arrest Him.

33Yeshua said, “I am with you 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. Where I am, you cannot come.”

35The Judean leaders then said among themselves, “Where is this person about to go that we shall not find Him? He’s not going to the Diaspora to teach the Greeks, is He?

36What did He mean by saying, ‘You will look for Me but will not find Me. Where I am, you cannot come’?”

37On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Yeshua stood up and cried out loudly, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.

38Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture says, ‘out of his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’”

39Now He said this about the Ruach, whom those who trusted in Him were going to receive; for the Ruach was not yet given, since Yeshua was not yet glorified.

40When they heard these words, some of the crowd said, “This man really is the Prophet.”

41Others were saying, “This is the Messiah.” Still others were saying, “The Messiah doesn’t come from the Galilee, does He?

42Didn’t the Scripture say that the Messiah comes from the seed of David and from Bethlehem, David’s town?”

43So a division arose in the crowd because of Yeshua.

44Some wanted to capture Him, but no one laid hands on Him.

45Then the guards returned to the ruling kohanim and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring Him?”

46“Never has anyone spoken like this man,” the guards answered.

47The Pharisees responded, “You haven’t been led astray also, have you?

48Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?

49No, but this mob that doesn’t know the Torah—they are cursed!”

50Nicodemus, the one who had come to Yeshua before and was one of them, said to them,

51“Our Torah doesn’t judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it?”

52They answered him, “You aren’t from the Galilee too, are you? Search, and see that no prophet comes out of the Galilee!”

53Then everyone went to his own house.