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Growing Division Over Jesus

John 7:25-44

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Chapter 7
25 So some of the people from Jerusalem were saying, "Isn't this the one they are seeking to kill?" 26 Look, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Do the rulers really know that this one is the Christ? 27 But we know where this one is from; but when the Christ comes, no one knows where he is from. 28 So as he taught in the temple, Jesus cried out, "You know me and you know where I am from. I have not come on my own, but the one who sent me is true, and you do not know him." 29 I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me. 30 Therefore they were seeking to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. 31 But many from the crowd believed in him, and they were saying, "When the Messiah comes, will he do more signs than this one did?" 32 The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent officers to seize him. 33 Therefore Jesus said, "A little while longer I am with you, and I am going away to the one who sent me." 34 You will seek me and will not find me, and where I am, you cannot come. 35 The Jews therefore said to one another, "Where is this one about to go that we will not find him? Is he not about to go to the dispersion of the Greeks and teach the Greeks?" 36 What does he mean by this statement: "You will seek me and not find me, and where I am you cannot come"? 37 On the last day, the great day of the festival, Jesus stood and cried out, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink." 38 The one who believes in me, just as the Scripture said, rivers of living water will flow from his belly. 39 Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been glorified. 40 Therefore, when the crowd heard these words, they were saying, "This one is truly the prophet." 41 Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "Does the Christ come from Galilee?" 42 Hasn't the Scripture said that the Messiah comes from the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was? 43 So there was a division in the crowd because of him. 44 But some of them wanted to seize him, but no one laid hands on him.