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John

Growing Division Over Jesus

John 7:25-44
25Therefore some of the Jerusalem ones said, "Is this not the one they are seeking to kill?" 26And look, he speaks with boldness, and they say nothing to him. Do the rulers truly know that this is the Christ? 27But we know this one, whence he is from. Whenever the Christ comes, however, no one knows whence he is from. 28Jesus therefore cried out in the sacred place while teaching and said, "You know me, and you know whence I am; and I have not come from myself, but the one who sent me is true, whom you do not know. 29I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me." 30They therefore tried to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. 31Yet many from the crowd believed in him and said, "When the Christ comes, will he not perform more signs than this one has done?" 32The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about him, so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him. 33Jesus therefore said, "I am with you still a little time, and I go to the one who sent me. 34You will seek me and will not find me, and where I am you cannot come." 35The Jews therefore said to themselves, "Where is this one about to go, that we will not find him? He is not about to go to the dispersion of the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?" 36What is this word that he spoke: "You will seek me and will not find me, and where I am you cannot come"? 37On the last and great day of the festival, Jesus stood and cried out, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink." 38The one believing in me, as the writing has said, rivers of living water will flow from his belly. 39This he said about the spirit, which those who believed in him were about to receive; for the spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified. 40Some of the crowd therefore, having heard these words, said, "This is truly the prophet." 41Others said, "This is the Christ." Still others said, "The Christ does not come from Galilee, does he? 42Has not the writing said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?" 43A split therefore arose in the crowd because of him. 44Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.
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