Lexham English Bible

John 7:31-43 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

31. But from the crowd many believed in him and were saying, “Whenever the Christ comes, he will not perform more signs than this man has done, will he?”

32. The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers in order to take him into custody .

33. Then Jesus said, “Yet a little time I am with you, and I am going to the one who sent me.

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

35. So the Jews said to one another, “Where is this one going to go, that we will not find him? He is not going to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?

36. What is this saying that he said, ‘You will seek me and will not find me, and where I am, you cannot come’?”

37. Now on the last day of the feast—the great day—Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and let him drink,

38. the one who believes in me. Just as the scripture said, ‘Out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.’ ”

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

40. Then, when they heard these words, some from the crowd began to say, “This man is truly the Prophet!”

41. Others were saying, “This man is the Christ!” But others were saying, “No, for the Christ does not come from Galilee, does he?

42. Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes from the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”

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