"Come and See": A Web Commentary on the Gospel of John: Section 8 Jesus at Tabernacles (Jn 7.1- 8.59)

8.3 Teaching on the Last Day of the Feast and Reactions (Jn 7.37-52)

³⁷Then on the last day of the feast, the greatest one, Jesus stood and cried out, saying “If anyone is thirsty, let them come to me and let the one that trusts in me drink. ³⁸As Scripture says: 'From his inmost parts rivers of living water will flow.'” ³⁹He said this because of the Spirit, whom those who trust in him were going to receive; for the Spirit was not yet present because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

⁴⁰Then some of the crowd listening to these words said, “This man is truly the prophet.” ⁴¹Others said, “He is the messiah.” Then some said, “The messiah surely doesn't come from Galilee, does he? ⁴²Doesn't the Scripture say that the messiah comes from David's line¹ and from Bethlehem, the village David was from?” ⁴³So there was a split in the crowd about him; ⁴⁴some indeed wished to lay hold on him, but no-one laid hands on him.

⁴⁵Then the Temple attendents came to the chief priests and Pharisees and they said to them, “Why didn't you bring him?” ⁴⁶The attendents answered, “No person ever spoke like that!” ⁴⁷Then the Pharisees answered them: “You haven't also been led astray, have you? ⁴⁸None of the rulers nor of the Pharisees put their trust in him, did they? ⁴⁹But this crowd of people ignorant of Torah have -- they are condemned!” ⁵⁰Nicodemos said to them -- he had visited Jesus before and was one of them -- “Our Law does not judge a person without hearing from them first and knowing what they are doing, does it?” ⁵²They answered and said to him “Surely you're not a Galilean too, are you? Look and see! A prophet doesn't come out of Galilee.”

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