Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
John 7:41 in context
John 7:38–44
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He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”
39
But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified.
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Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, “This is truly the prophet.”
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Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?
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Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”
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So a division arose in the multitude because of him.
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Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.
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