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John 7:36-51 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

36. What is this word that he spoke, 'You will seek me and you will not find me; and where I am, you are not able to go?' "

37. Then, on the last great day of the feast, Jesus was standing and crying out, saying: "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink:

38. whoever believes in me, just as Scripture says, 'From his chest shall flow rivers of living water.' "

39. Now he said this about the Spirit, which those who believe in him would soon be receiving. For the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

40. Therefore, some from that crowd, when they had heard these words of his, were saying, "This one truly is the Prophet."

41. Others were saying, "He is the Christ." Yet certain ones were saying: "Does the Christ come from Galilee?

42. Does Scripture not say that the Christ comes from the offspring of David and from Bethlehem, the town where David was?"

43. And so there arose a dissension among the multitude because of him.

44. Now certain ones among them wanted to apprehended him, but no one laid hands upon him.

45. Therefore, the attendants went to the high priests and the Pharisees. And they said to them, "Why have you not brought him?"

46. The attendants responded, "Never has a man spoken like this man."

47. And so the Pharisees answered them: "Have you also been seduced?

48. Have any of the leaders believed in him, or any of the Pharisees?

49. But this crowd, which does not know the law, they are accursed."

50. Nicodemus, the one who came to him by night and who was one of them, said to them,

51. "Does our law judge a man, unless it has first heard him and has known what he has done?"