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35 So the Jews said to one another, “Where is he going that we will not find him? Surely he is not going to the dispersion[a] among the Greeks to teach the Greeks, is he? 36 What is the meaning of his saying, ‘You will look for me and not find [me], and where I am you cannot come’?”

Rivers of Living Water.[b] 37 On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and exclaimed, “Let anyone who thirsts come to me and drink.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 7:35 Dispersion: or “diaspora”: Jews living outside Palestine. Greeks: probably refers to the Gentiles in the Mediterranean area; cf. Jn 12:20.
  2. 7:37, 39 Promise of living water through the Spirit.

35 The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we cannot find him? Will he go where our people live scattered(A) among the Greeks,(B) and teach the Greeks? 36 What did he mean when he said, ‘You will look for me, but you will not find me,’ and ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?”(C)

37 On the last and greatest day of the festival,(D) Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink.(E)

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