John 7:37 ¶ Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
John 7:38 "He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, 'From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.'"
John 7:39 But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
John 7:40 ¶ Some of the people therefore, when they heard these words, were saying, "This certainly is the Prophet."
John 7:41 Others were saying, "This is the Christ." Still others were saying, "Surely the Christ is not going to come from Galilee, is He?
John 7:42 "Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"
John 7:43 So a division occurred in the crowd because of Him.
John 7:44 Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid hands on Him.
John 7:45 ¶ The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why did you not bring Him?"
John 7:46 The officers answered, "Never has a man spoken the way this man speaks."
John 7:47 The Pharisees then answered them, "You have not also been led astray, have you?
John 7:48 "No one of the rulers or Pharisees has believed in Him, has he?
John 7:49 "But this crowd which does not know the Law is accursed."
John 7:50 Nicodemus (he who came to Him before, being one of them) *said to them,
John 7:51 "Our Law does not judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, does it?"
John 7:52 They answered him, "You are not also from Galilee, are you? Search, and see that no prophet arises out of Galilee."
John 7:53 [Everyone went to his home.
John 8:1 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
John 8:2 Early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people were coming to Him; and He sat down and began to teach them.
John 8:3 The scribes and the Pharisees *brought a woman caught in adultery, and having set her in the center of the court,