One of the great things about the Bible is that you can pick up where you left off, or just read one verse randomly and still get so much out of even reading one single verse that it can change your whole day. Or even your whole life. What other book can do that for you?
Here are these people, commenting about all the miracles that Jesus did, and what is the reaction of the Pharisees? They're so wrapped up in themselves and their religiosity that they don't even take notice of the wonderful miracles. I wonder whether it would have been at all different if they themselves had been the subject of one of Jesus' healings. I wonder what they were thinking to be able to completely shut their eyes to the Truth.
33. Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto Him that sent me.
34. Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come.
35. Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?
36. What manner of saying is this that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come?
37. In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink.
38. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
39. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
40. Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.
41. Others said, This the Christ, But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee?
42. Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?
I wonder whether anyone thought of asking Mary where her son was born? Dig a little deeper and you might find that things are not always as they appear, eh?
43. So there was a division among the people because of him.
44. And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.
45. Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him?
46. The officers answered, Never man spake like this man.
47. Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived?
48. Have an of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?
(Yes, actually, there were several believers, but they believed in Jesus secretly because they didn't want to lose their positions.)
49. But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.
(There you go, talking about yourself. People who knew the law, knew that Jesus fulfilled every prophecy about the Messiah that was ever recorded in the Jewish scripture. Check it out! --You'll have to read the Bible if you want to find that out for yourself.)
Seriously, though; how ironic is that, that the guys who were supposed to know the law inside and out were the very ones who gapped the most important event of their entire nation's history???
50. Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them.)
51. Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?
52. They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.
53. And every man went unto his own house.
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