New American Bible, Revised Edition

John 7:30-37 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

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.