John 7:28-53 ▼

28 Jesus cried, therefore, in the temple, teaching and saying, “You have both known Me, and you have known from where I am; and I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true, whom you have not known;

29 and I have known Him, because I am from Him, and He sent Me.”

30 They were seeking, therefore, to seize Him, and no one laid the hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come,

31 and many out of the multitude believed in Him and said, “The Christ—when He may come—will He do more signs than these that this One did?”

32 The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning Him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers that they may take Him;

33 Jesus, therefore, said to them, “Yet a short time I am with you, and I go away to Him who sent Me;

34 you will seek Me, and you will not find; and where I am, you are not able to come.”

35 The Jews, therefore, said among themselves, “To where is this One about to go that we will not find Him? Is He about to go to the dispersion of the Greeks, and to teach the Greeks?

36 What is this word that He said, You will seek Me, and you will not find? And, Where I am, you are not able to come?”

37 And in the last, the great day of the celebration, Jesus stood and cried, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink;

38 he who is believing in Me, according as the Writing said, Rivers of living water will flow out of his belly”;

39 and this He said of the Spirit, which those believing in Him were about to receive; for not yet was the Holy Spirit, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

40 Many, therefore, out of the multitude, having heard the word, said, “This is truly the Prophet”;

41 others said, “This is the Christ”; and others said, “Why, does the Christ come out of Galilee?

42 Did the Writing not say that out of the seed of David, and from Beth-Lehem—the village where David was—the Christ comes?”

43 A division, therefore, arose among the multitude because of Him.

44 And certain of them were willing to seize Him, but no one laid hands on Him;

45 the officers came, therefore, to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why did you not bring Him?”

46 The officers answered, “Never so spoke man—as this Man.”

47 The Pharisees, therefore, answered them, “Have you also been led astray?

48 Did anyone out of the rulers believe in Him? Or out of the Pharisees?

49 But this multitude, that is not knowing the Law, is accursed.”

50 Nicodemus says to them—he who came by night to Him—being one of them,

51 “Does our law judge the Man, if it may not hear from Him first, and know what He does?”

52 They answered and said to him, “Are you also out of Galilee? Search and see that a prophet has not risen out of Galilee”; [[

53 and each one went on to his house, but Jesus went on to the Mount of Olives.