The apostle John wrote how the Jews, “sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come. And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ comes, will he do more miracles than these which this man has done? The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him. Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me. You shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, there you cannot come.Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles? What manner of saying is this that he said, You shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, there you cannot come?”, and in chapter seven and verse thirty-seven of his book, John shared how Jesus cries out, “If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink” where we read:
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.
The verse reads, “In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, ...” John began with the words, “In the last day” or “on the uttermost, extreme and final sunrise to sunset”, “that great day of the feast” which means “the large, abundant and predicated in rank sunrise to sunset pertaining to the festival”, “Jesus stood and cried” or “the Son of God, the Savior of mankind and God incarnate arose to a standing position and shouted aloud with a loud voice”, “saying” which means “uttering, declaring and proclaiming” the following words. John shared how Jesus “stood up” on the final day of the “feast” and began to shout aloud the following words.
The verse goes on to say , “... If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.” John continued with the words, “If any man thirst” which means “whether any person male or female suffers from thirst such as painfully feeling their want of and eagerly longing for those things by which the soul is refreshed, supported and strengthened, “let him come unto me” or “allow and permit that person to arise and appear to me, Jesus”, “and drink” which means “and take in and imbibe”. John shared how Jesus shouted aloud that “if” any person was “thirsty” in their “soul”, they should appear before Him and “imbibe” of Him.
When we meditate upon John's words in this verse, we learn how Jesus took advantage of one of the traditional celebrations performed at the end of the “feast” they were celebrating. Upon the last day of this “feast of tabernacles”, the “priests” would “come up the many steps to the temple mount and pour the water on the pavement to symbolize the water that God provided out of the rock”, and it was upon this day that Jesus intervened and told the people to “drink” of Him. Jesus was the poured out water of refreshing that was provided to mankind for the forgiveness of their sins, and anyone who “drinks” of Him will be granted everlasting life with God in Heaven. Let all who are “thirsty” in their “souls” come to Jesus who alone is able to quench the “desire for satisfaction” within people.
Next time John shares how Jesus declares, “He that believes on me … out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.
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