"All wondered at His knowledge of the law and the prophecies; and the question passed from one to another, “How knoweth this Man letters, having never learned?” No one was regarded as qualified to be a religious teacher unless he had studied in the rabbinical schools, and both Jesus and John the Baptist had been represented as ignorant because they had not received this training. Those who heard them were astonished at their knowledge of the Scriptures, “having never learned.” Of men they had not, truly; but the God of heaven was their teacher, and from Him they had received the highest kind of wisdom. DA 453.1"
"And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?"
The EGW passage directly quotes and elaborates on the question posed in John 7:15, "How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?" The context and subject matter are identical.
"As Jesus spoke in the temple court, the people were held spellbound. The very men who were the most violent against Him felt themselves powerless to do Him harm. For the time, all other interests were forgotten. DA 453.2"
"And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him."
Both passages describe a situation where Jesus's opponents are unable to harm him despite their intentions. The EGW passage describes the people being 'spellbound' and the men feeling 'powerless', while John 7:44 states that 'no man laid hands on him'. This suggests a thematic parallel.
"Day after day He taught the people, until the last, “that great day of the feast.” The morning of this day found the people wearied from the long season of festivity. Suddenly Jesus lifted up His voice, in tones that rang through the courts of the temple: DA 453.3"
"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."
EGW directly quotes and references the Bible verse.
"“If any man thirst, let him come unto Me, and drink. He that believeth on Me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.” The condition of the people made this appeal very forcible. They had been engaged in a continued scene of pomp and festivity, their eyes had been dazzled with light and color, and their ears regaled with the richest music; but there had been nothing in all this round of ceremonies to meet the wants of the spirit, nothing to satisfy the thirst of the soul for that which perishes not. Jesus invited them to come and drink of the fountain of life, of that which would be in them a well of water, springing up unto everlasting life. DA 453.4"
"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."
EGW directly quotes and elaborates on the meaning of the Bible verse.
"But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life."
EGW alludes to John 4:14 while discussing John 7:37, drawing a direct connection between the two passages and their shared theme of living water.