35. The Judean leaders then said among themselves, “Where is this person about to go that we shall not find Him? He’s not going to the Diaspora to teach the Greeks, is He?
36. What did He mean by saying, ‘You will look for Me but will not find Me. Where I am, you cannot come’?”
37. On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Yeshua stood up and cried out loudly, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
38. Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture says, ‘out of his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’”
39. Now He said this about the Ruach, whom those who trusted in Him were going to receive; for the Ruach was not yet given, since Yeshua was not yet glorified.
40. When they heard these words, some of the crowd said, “This man really is the Prophet.”
41. Others were saying, “This is the Messiah.” Still others were saying, “The Messiah doesn’t come from the Galilee, does He?
42. Didn’t the Scripture say that the Messiah comes from the seed of David and from Bethlehem, David’s town?”
43. So a division arose in the crowd because of Yeshua.
44. Some wanted to capture Him, but no one laid hands on Him.
45. Then the guards returned to the ruling kohanim and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring Him?”
46. “Never has anyone spoken like this man,” the guards answered.
47. The Pharisees responded, “You haven’t been led astray also, have you?
48. Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?
49. No, but this mob that doesn’t know the Torah—they are cursed!”
50. Nicodemus, the one who had come to Yeshua before and was one of them, said to them,
51. “Our Torah doesn’t judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it?”
52. They answered him, “You aren’t from the Galilee too, are you? Search, and see that no prophet comes out of the Galilee!”
53. Then everyone went to his own house.