Bible Discussion Thread

Verses 37 40 "On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, 'Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them. ' By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified. " During the Feast of Tabernacles the people would go to the pool of Silom, draw water, and pour it into a basin. They would look up to heaven and say to God, "Thank you for this water. " But they didn 't know that God was standing right in front of them. He called himself Jesus. So this moved Jesus to say to them, "If you are really thirsty, come to me and drink. I am the God you are asking for water. I am the one who said to you in Isiah 41, 'When the poor and needy search for water, and there is none, and their tongues are parched from thirst, then I, the Lord, will answer them. ... ' " Water, here, as John said, is symbolic of the Holy Spirit, whom Jesus as God gives to us to help us understsand who he is. To put it plainly, you will never know that Jesus is God unless the Holy Spirit inspires you to believe. May God bless you!