23. If a man can receive circumcision on a sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a whole person well on a sabbath?
24. Stop judging by appearances, but judge justly.”
25. So some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, “Is he not the one they are trying to kill?
26. And look, he is speaking openly and they say nothing to him. Could the authorities have realized that he is the Messiah?
27. But we know where he is from. When the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from.”
28. So Jesus cried out in the temple area as he was teaching and said, “You know me and also know where I am from. Yet I did not come on my own, but the one who sent me, whom you do not know, is true.
29. I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”
30. So they tried to arrest him, but no one laid a hand upon him, because his hour had not yet come.
31. But many of the crowd began to believe in him, and said, “When the Messiah comes, will he perform more signs than this man has done?”
32. The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring about him to this effect, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent guards to arrest him.
33. So Jesus said, “I will be with you only a little while longer, and then I will go to the one who sent me.
34. You will look for me but not find [me], and where I am you cannot come.”
35. So the Jews said to one another, “Where is he going that we will not find him? Surely he is not going to the dispersion among the Greeks to teach the Greeks, is he?
36. What is the meaning of his saying, ‘You will look for me and not find [me], and where I am you cannot come’?”
37. On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and exclaimed, “Let anyone who thirsts come to me and drink.
38. Whoever believes in me, as scripture says:‘Rivers of living water will flow from within him.’”
39. He said this in reference to the Spirit that those who came to believe in him were to receive. There was, of course, no Spirit yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
40. Some in the crowd who heard these words said, “This is truly the Prophet.”
41. Others said, “This is the Messiah.” But others said, “The Messiah will not come from Galilee, will he?
42. Does not scripture say that the Messiah will be of David’s family and come from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”