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?”
43. So a division occurred in the crowd because of him.
44. Some of them even wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.
45. So the guards went to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why did you not bring him?”
46. The guards answered, “Never before has anyone spoken like this one.”
47. So the Pharisees answered them, “Have you also been deceived?
48. Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him?
49. But this crowd, which does not know the law, is accursed.”