New American Standard Bible

John 7:35-47 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

35. The Jews then said to one another, "Where does this man intend to go that we will not find Him? He is not intending to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks, is He?

36. What is this statement 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, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.

38. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, 'From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.'"

39. But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

40. Some of the people therefore, when they heard these words, were saying, "This certainly is the Prophet."

41. Others were saying, "This is the Christ." Still others were saying, "Surely the Christ is not going to come from Galilee, is 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 a division occurred in the crowd because of Him.

44. Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid hands on Him.

45. The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why did you not bring Him?"

46. The officers answered, "Never has a man spoken the way this man speaks."

47. The Pharisees then answered them, "You have not also been led astray, have you?