31. And many of the crowd believed in Him, and said, “When the Messiah comes, shall He do more signs than these which this One did?”
32. The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these matters concerning Him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to seize Him.
33. Therefore יהושע said to them, “Yet a little while I am with you, then I go to Him who sent Me.
34. “You shall seek Me and you shall not find Me, and where I am you are unable to come.”
35. The Yehuḏim, therefore, said to themselves, “Where is He about to go that we shall not find Him? Is He about to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and to teach the Greeks?
36. “What is this word which He said, ‘You shall seek Me and you shall not find Me, and where I am you are unable to come’?”
37. And on the last day, the great day of the festival, יהושע stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me, and let him who believes in Me drink.
38. “As the Scripture said, out of His innermost shall flow rivers of living water.”
39. And this He said concerning the Spirit, which those believing in Him were about to receive, for the Set-apart Spirit was not yet given, because יהושע was not yet esteemed.
40. Many from the crowd, when they heard the word, then said, “This truly is the Prophet.”
41. Others said, “This is the Messiah,” but others said, “Does the Messiah then come out of Galil?
42. “Did not the Scripture say that the Messiah comes from the seed of Dawiḏ and from the village of Bĕyth Leḥem, where Dawiḏ was?”
43. So a division came about among the people because of Him.
44. And some of them wished to take Him, but no one laid hands on Him.
45. The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees. And they said to them, “Why did you not bring Him?”
46. The officers answered, “Never has any man spoken like this Man!”
47. The Pharisees, therefore, answered them, “Have you also been led astray?
48. “Has anyone of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in Him?
49. “But this crowd that does not know the Torah is accursed.”
50. Naḵdimon – he who came to יהושע by night, being one of them – said to them,