Thus the people were divided because of Jesus.

Thus the people were divided because of Jesus.

Still others asked, “How can the Christ come from Galilee? Does not the Scripture say that the Christ will come from David’s family and from Bethlehem, the town where David lived?”

Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee?

Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.

By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.

He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
