Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

St John 7:39-49 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

39. Now this he said of the Spirit which they should receive, who believed in him: for as yet the Spirit was not given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

40. Of that multitude therefore, when they had heard these words of his, some said: This is the prophet indeed.

41. Others said: This is the Christ. But some said: Doth the Christ come out of Galilee?

42. Doth not the scripture say: That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem the town where David was?

43. So there arose a dissension among the people because of him.

44. And some of them would have apprehended him: but no man laid hands on him.

45. The ministers therefore came to the chief priests and the Pharisees. And they said to them: Why have you not brought him?

46. The ministers answered: Never did man speak like this man.

47. The Pharisees therefore answered them: Are you also seduced?

48. Hath any one of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

49. But this multitude, that knoweth not the law, are accursed.