John 7:43
Therefore a division occurred among the crowd because of Him.
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
So there was a division among the people because of him.
In Context
44Now some of them wished to arrest Him, but no one laid a hand on Him. 1 Rejected by the Authorities
Cross References
Matthew 10:35For I have come to ‘ turn a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’;
John 7:12And there was much murmuring among the crowds concerning Him. Some on the one hand were saying, “He is a good Man”; while others were saying, “No, on the contrary, He deceives the people.”
John 10:19Therefore there was a division again among the Jews because of these words.
Acts 23:7And when he had spoken this, there came to be a dispute between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.
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 →