of the multitude believed on him, and said, When the
Christ comes will he perform more miracles than this man has performed?
[7:32]The Pharisees heard the multitude saying these things concerning
him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent to take him by force.
[7:33]Then Jesus said, Yet a little while am I with you, and I go to
him that sent me. [7:34]You shall seek and shall not find, and where I
am you cannot come. [7:35]Then the Jews said one to another, Where is
this man about to go, that we shall not find him? Will he go to the
dispersion of the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? [7:36]What does the
word which he said mean; You shall seek and shall not find me, and
where I am you cannot come?
6 [7:37]And on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood
and cried, saying, If any one thirsts, let him come to me and drink.
[7:38]He that believes in me, as the Scripture has said, out of him
shall flow rivers of living water. [7:39]But he said this of the Spirit
which those believing in him were about to receive; for the Spirit was
not yet [given], because Jesus was not yet glorified. [7:40]Then some
of the multitude hearing these words, said, This is truly the prophet;
[7:41]others said, This is the Christ; others said, [No]; for does the
Christ come from Galilee? [7:42]Has not the Scripture said that the
Christ comes from the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the
village where David was? [7:43]Then there was a division among the
multitude on his account; [7:44]and some of them wished to take him by
force, but no one laid hands on him.
7 [7:45]Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees, and
they said to them, Why have you not brought him? [7:46]The officers
answered, A man never spoke thus. [7:47]The Pharisees answered them,
Are you also deceived? [7:48]Has any one of the rulers believed on him,
or of the Pharisees? [7:49] But this multitude which know not the law
are accursed. [7:50]Nicodemus, he that came to him, being one of them,
said to them, [7:51]Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from
him and knows what he does? [7:52]They answered and said to him, Are
you also from Galilee? search and see; for no prophet is raised up from
Galilee.
8 [7:53][An early interpolation, but probably true]. And every man went
to his own house; [8:1]and Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. [8:2]And
in the morning he went again to the temple, and all the people came to
him, and he sat and ta
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