John 7:38
whoever believes in me, just as Scripture says, ‘From his chest shall flow rivers of living water.’”
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Deuteronomy 18:15The Lord your God will raise up for you a PROPHET from your nation and from your brothers, similar to me. You shall listen to him,
Proverbs 10:11The mouth of the just is a vein of life. And the mouth of the impious covers iniquity.
Isaiah 12:3You will draw water with gladness from the fountains of the Savior.
Isaiah 58:11And the Lord will give you rest continually, and he will fill your soul with splendor, and he will free your bones, and you will be like a watered garden and like a fountain of water whose waters will not fail.
Ezekiel 47:1And he turned me back to the gate of the house. And behold, waters went out, from under the threshold of the house, toward the east. For the face of the house looked toward the east. But the waters descended on the right side of the temple, toward the south of the altar.
John 4:10Jesus responded and said to her: “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, ‘Give me to drink,’ perhaps you would have made a request of him, and he would have given you living water.”
Matthew Henry on John 7:38-45
The Gospel Invitation. 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… Read the whole commentary →