John 7:42-44
J.B. Phillips New Testament
37-42 Then, on the last day, the climax of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If any man is thirsty, he can come to me and drink! The man who believes in me, as the scripture says, will have rivers of living water flowing from his inmost heart.” (Here he was speaking about the Spirit which those who believe in him would receive. The Holy Spirit had not yet been given because Jesus had not yet been glorified.) When they heard these words, some of the people were saying, “This really is the Prophet.” Others said, “This is Christ!” But some said, “And does Christ come from Galilee? Don’t the scriptures say that Christ will be descended from David, and will come from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”
43-44 So the people were in two minds about him—some of them wanted to arrest him, but so far no one laid hands on him.
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John 7:42-44
New English Translation
42 Don’t the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant[a] of David[b] and comes from Bethlehem,[c] the village where David lived?”[d] 43 So there was a division in the crowd[e] because of Jesus.[f] 44 Some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.[g]
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- John 7:42 tn Grk “is from the seed” (an idiom for human descent).
- John 7:42 sn An allusion to Ps 89:4.
- John 7:42 sn An allusion to Mic 5:2.
- John 7:42 tn Grk “the village where David was.”
- John 7:43 tn Or “among the common people” (as opposed to the religious authorities like the chief priests and Pharisees).
- John 7:43 tn Grk “him”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- John 7:44 sn Cf. John 7:30 regarding the attempt to seize Jesus.
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