Bible verse
On hearing these words, some of the people said, “This is truly the Prophet.”
John 7:40 · BSB
The verses around it, from John 7.
36 What does He mean by saying, ‘You will look for Me, but you will not find Me,’ and, ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?”
37 On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
38 Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”
39 He was speaking about the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. For the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
40 On hearing these words, some of the people said, “This is truly the Prophet.”
41 Others declared, “This is the Christ.” But still others asked, “How can the Christ come from Galilee?
42 Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Christ will come from the line of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”
43 So there was division in the crowd because of Jesus.
44 Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him.
KJV
Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.
ASV
Some of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, This is of a truth the prophet.
ERV
Some of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, This is of a truth the prophet.
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