37. And on the last great day of the feast Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If you who are thirsty, let him come to me and drink."

38. Whoever believes in me, as the Scriptures say, rivers of living water will flow out of his belly.

39. This he said about the Spirit whom those who believe in him had to receive: for the Holy Spirit was not yet upon them, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

40. Many of the people, when they heard these words, said, "He is definitely a prophet."

41. Others said, "This is Christ." And some said, "Will Christ come from Galilee?"

42. Does not the Scripture say that Christ will come from the seed of David and from Bethlehem, from the place where David was?

43. And so there was a strife among the people about Him.

44. Some of them wanted to seize him; but no one laid hands on Him.

45. So the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, and these said to them, "Why did you not bring him?"

46. The ministers answered, "Never has a man spoken like this man."

47. The Pharisees said to them, "Have you also been deceived?

48. Did any of the rulers, or of the Pharisees, believe in Him?

49. But this people are ignorant of the law, they are cursed.

50. Nicodemus, who came to him by night, being one of them, said to them:

51. Does our law judge a man if they do not first hear him and know what he is doing?

52. To this they said to him, "Are you not also from Galilee?" look and see that there is no prophet coming from Galilee.

53. And they all went home.

Chapter 8

1. And Jesus went up to the Mount of Olives.

2. And in the morning he came again to the temple, and all the people went to him. He sat down and taught them.

3. Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought to him a woman who had been taken in adultery, and set her in the midst,