John 7:30-40

30 ¹So they were seeking to arrest him, but ²no one laid a hand on him, ³because his hour had not yet come.

31 Yet ⁴many of the people believed in him. They said, ⁵"When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?"

Officers Sent to Arrest Jesus

32 The Pharisees heard the crowd ⁶muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent ⁷officers to arrest him.

33 Jesus then said, ⁸"I will be with you a little longer, and then ⁹I am going to him who sent me.

34 ¹⁰You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come."

35 The Jews said to one another, "Where does this man intend to go that we will not find him? ¹¹Does he intend to go to ¹²the Dispersion among ¹³the Greeks and teach the Greeks?

36 What does he mean by saying, ¹⁴'You will seek me and you will not find me,' and, 'Where I am you cannot come'?"

Rivers of Living Water

37 ¹⁵On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, ¹⁶"If anyone thirsts, let him ¹⁷come to me and drink.

38 Whoever believes in me, ¹⁸as^[a] the Scripture has said, ¹⁹'Out of his heart will flow rivers of ²⁰living water.'"

39 Now ²¹this he said about the Spirit, ²²whom those who believed in him were to receive, ²³for as yet the Spirit had not been ²⁴given, ²⁵because Jesus was not yet glorified.

Division Among the People

40 When they heard these words, ²⁶some of the people said, "This really is ²⁷the Prophet."

Cross References

• 1. ver. 44; John 10:39; [Matthew 21:46]
• 2. John 8:20
• 3. ver. 6
• 4. John 8:30; John 10:42; John 11:45; John 12:11; [John 2:23; John 12:42; Matthew 21:11]
• 5. Matthew 12:23
• 6. ver. 12
• 7. ver. 45, 46
• 8. John 12:35; John 13:33; John 14:19; John 16:16-19
• 9. John 16:5
• 10. John 8:21; John 13:33
• 11. [John 8:22]
• 12. James 1:1; 1 Peter 1:1; [Isaiah 11:12; Zephaniah 3:10]
• 13. John 12:20
• 14. ver. 34
• 15. Leviticus 23:36; Numbers 29:35; Nehemiah 8:18
• 16. Isaiah 55:1; See John 4:14
• 17. See John 6:35
• 18. [Isaiah 12:3; Ezekiel 47:1]
• 19. John 4:14; [Proverbs 18:4]
• 20. See John 4:10
• 21. Isaiah 44:3; [1 Corinthians 12:13; Galatians 3:14]
• 22. Joel 2:28; Acts 2:16-18; [John 1:33; John 20:22; Luke 24:49]
• 23. Acts 2:4, 33
• 24. John 3:34; Luke 11:13
• 25. John 14:16, 17; John 16:7
• 26. See ver. 31
• 27. John 1:21; John 6:14; See Matthew 21:11

Footnotes

• [a]. Or let him come to me, and let him who believes in me drink. As