John 7:37-44

Common English Bible

³⁷On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and shouted,

“All who are thirsty should come to me!
³⁸    All who believe in me should drink!
    As the scriptures said concerning me,^[a]
        Rivers of living water will flow out from within him.”

³⁹Jesus said this concerning the Spirit. Those who believed in him would soon receive the Spirit, but they hadn’t experienced the Spirit yet since Jesus hadn’t yet been glorified.

⁴⁰When some in the crowd heard these words, they said, “This man is truly the prophet.” ⁴¹Others said, “He’s the Christ.” But others said, “The Christ can’t come from Galilee, can he? ⁴²Didn’t the scripture say that the Christ comes from David’s family and from Bethlehem, David’s village?” ⁴³So the crowd was divided over Jesus. ⁴⁴Some wanted to arrest him, but no one grabbed him.

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Footnotes

John 7:38 Or Whoever is thirsty should come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, just as the scriptures said, rivers of living water will flow out from within them.