36. What did he mean by saying that we will look for him, but won't find him? Why can't we go where he is going?”
37. On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and shouted, “If you are thirsty, come to me and drink!
38. Have faith in me, and you will have life-giving water flowing from deep inside you, just as the Scriptures say.”
39. Jesus was talking about the Holy Spirit, who would be given to everyone that had faith in him. The Spirit had not yet been given to anyone, since Jesus had not yet been given his full glory.
40. When the crowd heard Jesus say this, some of them said, “He must be the Prophet!”
41. Others said, “He is the Messiah!” Others even said, “Can the Messiah come from Galilee?
42. The Scriptures say that the Messiah will come from the family of King David. Doesn't this mean that he will be born in David's home town of Bethlehem?”
43. The people started taking sides against each other because of Jesus.
44. Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him.
45. When the temple police returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, they were asked, “Why didn't you bring Jesus here?”
46. They answered, “No one has ever spoken like that man!”
47. The Pharisees said to them, “Have you also been fooled?
48. Not one of the chief priests or the Pharisees has faith in him.
49. And these people who don't know the Law are under God's curse anyway.”