6 [7:37]And on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any one thirsts, let him come to me and drink. [7:38]He that believes in me, as the Scripture has said, out of him shall flow rivers of living water. [7:39]But he said this of the Spirit which those believing in him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet [given], because Jesus was not yet glorified. [7:40]Then some of the multitude hearing these words, said, This is truly the prophet; [7:41]others said, This is the Christ; others said, [No]; for does the Christ come from Galilee? [7:42]Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was? [7:43]Then there was a division among the multitude on his account; [7:44]and some of them wished to take him by force, but no one laid hands on him. 7 [7:45]Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, Why have you not brought him? [7:46]The officers answered, A man never spoke thus. [7:47]The Pharisees answered them, Are you also deceived? [7:48]Has any one of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees? [7:49] But this multitude which know not the law are accursed. [7:50]Nicodemus, he that came to him, being one of them, said to them, [7:51]Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he does? [7:52]They answered and said to him, Are you also from Galilee? search and see; for no prophet is raised up from Galilee. 8 [7:53][An early interpolation, but probably true]. And every man went to his own house; [8:1]and Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. [8:2]And in the morning he went again to the temple, and all the people came to him, and he sat and taught them. [8:3]And the scribes and Pharisees brought him a woman taken in adultery, and placing her in the midst [8:4]said to him, Teacher, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. [8:5]In the law, Moses commanded us that such should be stoned; what therefore do you say? [8:6]They said this to try him, that they might have something of which to accuse him. But Jesus, stooping down, wrote with his finger on the ground. [8:7]And when they continued asking him, rising up, he said to them, Let him that has not sinned among you first cast the stone at her. [8:8]And again stooping down he wrote on the ground. [8:9]But they hearing, and being convicted by their consciences, went out, one by one, beginning with the oldest, even to the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. [8:10]And Jesus rising up and seeing no one but the woman, said to her, Woman, where are those your accusers? Has no man condemned you? [8:11]And she said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said to her, Neither do I condemn you; go, and sin no more. CHAPTER XI. CHRIST DECLARING HIMSELF THE SON OF GOD.