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John 7:40-44

Division in the Crowd

At the Feast · John 7

Story guide: The crowd is divided over Jesus. Some want to seize him, but no one lays hands on him.

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40Therefore, some from the crowd, when they heard these words, were saying, “This truly is the Prophet.”

41Others were saying, “This is the Messiah.” But some were saying, “Surely the Messiah does not come from Galilee, does he?”

42Has not the Scripture said that the Messiah comes from the offspring of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?

43So there was a division in the crowd because of him.

44But some of them wanted to seize him, yet no one laid hands on him.

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