Revised Version 1885

John 7:36-47 Revised Version 1885 (RV1885)

36. What is this word that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, ye cannot come?

37. Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.

38. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

39. But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believed on him were to receive: for the Spirit was not yet given; because Jesus was not yet glorified.

40. Some of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, This is of a truth the prophet.

41. Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, What, doth the Christ come out of Galilee?

42. Hath not the scripture said that the Christ cometh of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?

43. So there arose a division in the multitude because of him.

44. And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.

45. The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why did ye not bring him?

46. The officers answered, Never man so spake.

47. The Pharisees therefore answered them, Are ye also led astray?