John 7:39
But he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him would receive; the Spirit had not yet been given because Jesus was not yet glorified.
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In Context
40Some of the crowd, when they heard these words, said, “This is indeed the prophet.”
Cross References
Deuteronomy 18:15Yahweh your God will raise up for you a prophet from among you, one of your brothers, like me. You must listen to him.
Proverbs 1:23Pay attention to my correction; 1 I will pour out my thoughts to you; 1 I will make my words known to you. 1
Isaiah 32:15until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, 1 and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered as a forest. 1
Joel 2:28It will come about afterward that 1 I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, 1 and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. 1 Your old men will dream dreams, 1 your young men will see visions. 1
Matthew 21:11The crowds answered, “This is Jesus the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.”
Luke 7:16Then fear overcame all of them, and they kept praising God, saying, “A great prophet has been raised among us” and “God has looked upon his people.”
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 →