37. Now on the last day of the Chag, Hoshana Rabbah, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts let him come to me and drink. [Lv 23:36; Isa 55:1; 12:3; 49:10]
38. The one with emunah in me, as the Kitvei Hakodesh said, 'Out of the midst of him, rivers of MAYIM CHAYYIM [Zech 14:8] will flow.' [Prov 18:4; Isa 44:3; 58:11; 43:19f, Ezek 47:1-12; Joel 4:18; Song 4:15].
39. But this he said about the Ruach Hakodesh which the ones having emunah (faith) in him were about to receive, for the Ruach Hakodesh had not yet been given, because he had not yet received kavod. [YOEL 2:28 (3:1)]
40. Some of the multitude, therefore, having heard these dvarim were saying, This man is beemes the Navi.
41. Others were saying, This man is the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach. But some were saying, Surely the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach comes not from the Galil, does he?
42. Has not the Kitvei Hakodesh said that the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach is from the zera Dovid and from Beit-Lechem, the shtetl where Dovid lived? [2Sm 7:12; Psa 89:3-4; Mic 5:1(2); Jer 23:5]
43. A machloket (controversy), therefore, occurred among the multitude because of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
44. And some of them were wanting to arrest him, but no one laid his hands on him.
45. Then the avadim of the Rashei Hakohanim and Perushim came and the Rashei Hakohanim and Perushim said to them, Why did you not bring him?
46. In reply, the avadim said, Never Ish spoke like this Ish.
47. In reply, therefore, the Perushim said, Surely not you also have been deceived?
48. Has any of the manhigim put their emunah (faith) in him, or any of the Perushim [T.N.but cf Yn 7:50; 19:39]?
49. But this am ha'aretz crowd has no da'as of Torah and is cursed. [DEVARIM 27:26]
50. Rav Nakdimon, the one having come to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach earlier, being one of their own, says to them,
51. Surely Torateinu (Our Torah) judges not the Man unless it hears first from the Man himself and has da'as of what he does, does it? [Dt 1:16; 17:6; Ex 23:1]
52. They answered and said to Rav Nakdimon, Surely not you also are from the Galil, are you? Search [the Kitvei Hakodesh] and see that from the Galil a Navi does not arise. [T.N. but cf 2Kgs 14:25; Isa 9:1,2]
53. And they went each one to his bais.