The Book of John, Chapter 7, Verse 44

‹Ye shall seek me, and shall not find› [me]: ‹and where I am,› [thither] ‹ye cannot come.›

Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?

What [manner of] saying is this that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find [me]: and where I am, [thither] ye cannot come?

In the last day, that great [day] of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, ‹If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.›

‹He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.›

(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet [given]; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)

Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.

Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee?

Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?

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So there was a division among the people because of him.

King James Version

And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.

American Standard Version

And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.

New English Translation

Early in the morning he came to the temple courts again. All the people came to him, and he sat down and began to teach them.

World English Bible

Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.

Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him?

The officers answered, Never man spake like this man.

Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived?

Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?

But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.

Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,)

Doth our law judge [any] man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?

They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.

And every man went unto his own house.

Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.