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Day 17 of 47 going through John's gospel - more info at https://www.severnvineyard.org/time-space-jesus

What could happen if you take time and make space with Jesus today? This ten-minute podcast is part reading, part music, and part silence, all designed to help you create a space to picture and feel the scene with Jesus in it. You can use this space in lots of ways, including meditation, prayer, re-reading the passage or thinking about what it means for you today.

Today's reflection: Imagine you are full of food and drink at the end of a festival \\u2013 how do you react to Jesus offering more? Are there things you still need and want from him?

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Then some people from Jerusalem said, \\u201cIsn\\u2019t this the man they want to kill? Look, he is speaking openly, and they say nothing to him. Could the leaders have judged that this really is the Christ? No, we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.\\u201d

So Jesus schooled them in the temple, crying out, \\u201cYou do know me, and you know where I am from, and I have not sent myself. But the one who sent me is true, and you don\\u2019t know him. I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.\\u201d

At that, they tried to arrest Jesus; but no one laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come. But many from the crowd believed in him. They said, \\u201cWhen the Christ comes, will he do any more miracles than this man?\\u201d The Pharisees heard the masses murmuring these things about Jesus, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

Then Jesus said, \\u201cI will be with you a little while longer, then I depart to the one who sent me. You will seek me and won\\u2019t find me. Where I am, you cannot come.\\u201d

So the Jews said amongst themselves, \\u201cWhere will this man go that we won\\u2019t find him? Will he go to our people scattered amongst the Greeks and teach the Greeks? What is this word he said, \\u2018You will seek me, and won\\u2019t find me;\\u2019 and \\u2018Where I am, you cannot come\\u2019?\\u201d

Now on the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and cried out, \\u201cIf anyone is thirsty, let them come to me and drink! Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from their bellies will flow rivers of living water.\\u201d He said this about the Holy Spirit, which believers were about to receive. But the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

When they heard these words, many of the crowd said, \\u201cThis is truly the prophet.\\u201d Others said, \\u201cThis is the Christ.\\u201d But some said, \\u201cWhat, does the Christ come out of Galilee? Hasn\\u2019t the Scripture said that the Christ comes from David\\u2019s descendants, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?\\u201d So the people were divided because of Jesus. Some would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him. So the officers went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, \\u201cWhy didn\\u2019t you bring him in?\\u201d

The officers answered, \\u201cNo man ever spoke like this man!\\u201d

The Pharisees answered back, \\u201cYou haven\\u2019t been taken in too, have you? Have any of the rulers or any of the Pharisees believed in him? No, but this mob that doesn\\u2019t know the law is cursed.\\u201d

Nicodemus, the one of them who went to Jesus at night, said to them, \\u201cDoes our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and finding out what he has done?\\u201d

They answered him, \\u201cAre you from Galilee too? Look into it and you will see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.\\u201d