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John 7:37-38 – Re-punctuating and Re-emphasizing
John 7:37-38 – If anyone thirst, let him come to Me. And drink, he that believes on Me. As said the Scripture, “From deep within Him (i.e., Christ), will flow rivers of living water.” Notice the nice parallelism: thirst-come; drink-believes. And notice how the emphasis is on Jesus giving the Holy Spirit as the source of living water, not believers. As v.39 says, the Holy Spirit will be received by believers, they will drink; not that believers will give the Holy Spirit.
Whether correct or not, worth thinking about. The question becomes is Jesus focusing on Him being the primary source or believers being the secondary source. How does this compare to John 4? This re-emphasis is saying the water flows out of Jesus (ch 7) making it harmonize. Plus, “as the scripture says” might be more easily proved from the OT as being Jesus such as Isaiah 55:1.
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