John 7:37-52

New King James Version

The Promise of the Holy Spirit

^37 (A)On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, ^(B)“If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. ^38 (C)He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, ^(D)out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” ^39 (E)But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those ^[a]believing in Him would receive; for the ^[b]Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet ^(F)glorified.

Who Is He?

⁴⁰ Therefore ^[c]many from the crowd, when they heard this saying, said, “Truly this is ^(G)the Prophet.” ⁴¹ Others said, “This is ^(H)the Christ.”

But some said, “Will the Christ come out of Galilee? ^42 (I)Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem, ^(J)where David was?” ⁴³ So ^(K)there was a division among the people because of Him. ⁴⁴ Now ^(L)some of them wanted to take Him, but no one laid hands on Him.

Rejected by the Authorities

⁴⁵ Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why have you not brought Him?”

⁴⁶ The officers answered, ^(M)“No man ever spoke like this Man!”

⁴⁷ Then the Pharisees answered them, “Are you also deceived? ⁴⁸ Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in Him? ⁴⁹ But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.”

⁵⁰ Nicodemus ^(N)(he who came to ^[d]Jesus ^[e]by night, being one of them) said to them, ^51 (O)“Does our law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing?”

⁵² They answered and said to him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and look, for ^(P)no prophet ^[f]has arisen out of Galilee.”