Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

²⁵ Some Jerusalem residents commented, “Isn’t this the man they’re trying to kill? ²⁶ Look—he’s speaking quite openly, and nobody is saying anything to him. You don’t suppose our rulers really know he’s the Messiah, do you? ²⁷ The thing is, we know where he comes from—but when the Messiah appears, nobody will know where he comes from.”

²⁸ As Jesus was teaching in the Temple, he shouted out, “You know me! You know where I come from! I haven’t come on my own behalf—but the one who sent me is true, and you don’t know him! ²⁹ I know him, because I come from him, and he sent me!”

³⁰ So they tried to arrest him. But nobody laid hands on him, because his time had not yet come.

Rivers of living water

³¹ Many people from the crowd believed in Jesus.

“When the Messiah comes,” they were saying, “will he do more signs than this man has done?”

³² The Pharisees heard that the crowd was full of this rumor about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent servants to arrest him.

³³ So Jesus said, “I’m just with you for a little while, and then I’m going to the one who sent me. ³⁴ You will look for me and you won’t find me, and you can’t come where I am.”

³⁵ “Where does he think he’s going,” said the Judaeans to one another, “if we won’t be able to find him? He’s not going to go off abroad, among the Greeks, is he, and teach the Greeks? ³⁶ What does he mean when he says, ‘You’ll look for me and you won’t find me,’ and ‘Where I am, you can’t come’?”