36 What is this saying that he said, ‘You will seek me and will not find me,[a][b] and where I am, you cannot come’?”

The Promise of the Spirit

37 Now on the last day of the feast—the great day—Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and let him drink, 38 the one who believes in me.[c] Just as the scripture said, ‘Out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.’”[d]

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Footnotes

  1. John 7:36 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  2. John 7:36 Some manuscripts explicitly state “me”
  3. John 7:38 An alternative punctuation of vv. 37–38 reads: “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and let him drink. 38  The one who believes in me, just as the scripture said, ‘Out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.’”
  4. John 7:38 A quotation from the Old Testament of uncertain origin; texts most often suggested are Isa 44:3; 55:1; 58:11; Zech 14:8