Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

^37-42 Then, on the last day, the climax of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If any man is thirsty, he can come to me and drink! The man who believes in me, as the scripture says, will have rivers of living water flowing from his inmost heart.” (Here he was speaking about the Spirit which those who believe in him would receive. The Holy Spirit had not yet been given because Jesus had not yet been glorified.) When they heard these words, some of the people were saying, “This really is the Prophet.” Others said, “This is Christ!” But some said, “And does Christ come from Galilee? Don’t the scriptures say that Christ will be descended from David, and will come from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”

^43-44 So the people were in two minds about him—some of them wanted to arrest him, but so far no one laid hands on him.

⁴⁵ Then the officers returned to the Pharisees and chief priests, who said to them, “Why haven’t you brought him?”

⁴⁶ “No man ever spoke like that!” they replied.

^47-49 “Has he pulled the wool over your eyes, too?” retorted the Pharisees. “Have any of the authorities or any of the Pharisees believed in him? But this crowd, who know nothing about the Law, is damned anyway!”

^50-51 One of their number, Nicodemus (the one who had previously been to see Jesus), remarked to them, “But surely our Law does not condemn the accused without hearing what he has to say, and finding out what he has done?”

⁵² “Are you a Galilean, too?” they answered him. “Look where you will—you won’t find any prophet comes out of Galilee!”