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As He was teaching in the temple complex,^(ag) Jesus cried out, "You know Me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on My own, but the One who sent Me^(ah) is true. You don't know Him;^(ai)

I know Him because I am from Him, and He sent Me." ^(aj)

Then they tried to seize Him. Yet no one laid a hand on Him because His hour^[d] had not yet come.

However, many from the crowd believed in Him and said, "When the Messiah comes, He won't perform more signs than this man has done,^(ak) will He?"

The Pharisees^(al) heard the crowd muttering these things about Him, so the chief priests^(am) and the Pharisees sent temple police to arrest Him.

Then Jesus said, "I am only with you for a short time.^(an) Then I'm going to the One who sent Me.^(ao)

You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come." ^(ap)

Then the Jews^(aq) said to one another, "Where does He intend to go so we won't find Him? He doesn't intend to go to the Dispersion^[e](ar) among the Greeks^(as) and teach the Greeks, does He?

What is this remark He made: ‘You will look for Me, and you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come'^(at) ?"

On the last and most important day of the festival,^(au) Jesus stood up and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, he should come to Me ^[f](av) and drink!^(aw)

The one who believes in Me,^(ax) as the Scripture^(ay) has said,^[g] will have streams of living water^(az) flow^(ba) from deep within him."

He said this about the Spirit.^(bb) Those who believed in Jesus were going to receive the Spirit,^(bc) for the Spirit^[h] had not yet been received^[i][j] because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

When some from the crowd heard these words, they said, "This really is the Prophet!"^[k](bd)

Others said, "This is the Messiah!" But some said, "Surely the Messiah doesn't come from Galilee, does He?

Doesn't the Scripture^(be) say that the Messiah comes from David's^(bf) offspring^[l] and from the town of Bethlehem,^(bg) where David once lived?"

So a division^(bh) occurred among the crowd because of Him.

Some of them wanted to seize Him,^(bi) but no one laid hands on Him.

Then the temple police^(bj) came to the chief priests^(bk) and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why haven't you brought Him?"

The police answered, "No man ever spoke like this!"^[m](bl)

Then the Pharisees responded to them: "Are you fooled^(bm) too?

Have any of the rulers^(bn) or Pharisees believed in Him?

But this crowd, which doesn't know the law, is accursed!"

Nicodemus^(bo)—the one who came to Him previously, being one of them—said to them,

"Our law doesn't judge a man before it hears from him and knows what he's doing, does it?"^(bp)

"You aren't from Galilee^(bq) too, are you?" they replied. "Investigate and you will see that no prophet arises from Galilee."^[n](br)

[So each one went to his house.