Bible in Basic English
"Others said, This is the Christ. But others said, Not so; will the Christ come from Galilee?"
— John 7:41, Bible in Basic English
“Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee?”
He who has faith in me, out of his body, as the Writings have said, will come rivers of living water.
This he said of the Spirit which would be given to those who had faith in him: the Spirit had not been given then, because the glory of Jesus was still to come.
When these words came to their ears, some of the people said, This is certainly the prophet.
Others said, This is the Christ. But others said, Not so; will the Christ come from Galilee?
Do not the Writings say that the Christ comes of the seed of David and from Beth-lehem, the little town where David was?
So there was a division among the people because of him.
And some of them had a desire to take him; but no man put hands on him.