Part 12

007:020 "You are possessed by a demon," replied the crowd; "no one wants to kill you."

007:021 "One deed I have done," replied Jesus, "and you are all full of wonder.

007:022 Consider therefore. Moses gave you the rite of circumcision (not that it began with Moses, but with your earlier forefathers), and even on a Sabbath day you circumcise a child.

007:023 If a child is circumcised even on a Sabbath day, are you bitter against me because I have restored a man to perfect health on a Sabbath day?

007:024 Do not form superficial judgements, but form the judgements that are just."

007:025 Some however of the people of Jerusalem said, "Is not this the man they are wanting to kill?

007:026 But here he is, speaking openly and boldly, and they say nothing to him! Can the Rulers really have ascertained that this man is the Christ?

007:027 And yet we know this man, and we know where he is from; but as for the Christ, when He comes, no one can tell where He is from."

007:028 Jesus therefore, while teaching in the Temple, cried aloud, and said, "Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. And yet I have not come of my own accord; but there is One who has sent me, an Authority indeed, of whom you have no knowledge.

007:029 I know Him, because I came from Him, and He sent me."

007:030 On hearing this they wanted to arrest Him; yet not a hand was laid on Him, because His time had not yet come.

007:031 But from among the crowd a large number believed in Him. "When the Christ comes," they said, "will He perform more miracles than this teacher has performed?"

007:032 The Pharisees heard the people thus expressing their various doubts about Him, and the High Priests and the Pharisees sent some officers to apprehend Him.

007:033 So Jesus said, "Still for a short time I am with you, and then I go my way to Him who sent me.

007:034 You will look for me and will not find me, and where I am you cannot come."

007:035 The Jews therefore said to one another, "Where is he about to betake himself, so that we shall not find him? Will he betake himself to the Dispersion among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?

007:036 What do those words of his mean, `You will look for me, but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come'?"

007:037 On the last day of the Festival--the great day--Jesus stood up and cried aloud. "Whoever is thirsty," He said, "let him come to me and drink.

007:038 He who believes in me, from within him--as the Scripture has said-- rivers of living water shall flow."

007:039 He referred to the Spirit which those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not bestowed as yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

007:040 After listening to these discourses, some of the crowd began to say, "This is beyond doubt the Prophet."

007:041 Others said, "He is the Christ." But others again, "Not so, for is the Christ to come from Galilee?

007:042 Has not the Scripture declared that the Christ is to come of the family of David and from Bethlehem, David's village?"

007:043 So there was a violent dissension among the people on His account.

007:044 Some of them wanted at once to arrest Him, but no one laid hands upon Him.

007:045 Meanwhile the officers returned to the High Priests and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why have you not brought him?"

007:046 "No mere man has ever spoken as this man speaks," said the officers.

007:047 "Are *you* deluded too?" replied the Pharisees;