John Chapter 6 verse 65 Holy Bible
And he said, For this cause have I said unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it be given unto him of the Father.
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And he said, This is why I said to you, No man is able to come to me if he is not given the power to do so by the Father.
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And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no one can come to me unless it be given to him from the Father.
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And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
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He said, "For this cause have I said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father."
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and he said, `Because of this I have said to you -- No one is able to come unto me, if it may not have been given him from my Father.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 65. - And he said, For this cause have I said unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of the Father (μου is omitted by R.T. and Tischendorf (8th edit.); the authorities seem here more equally divided); see notes on vers. 37 and 44. Christ has come completely round to the fundamental principles with which he started. The coming to him, the believing on him, the spiritual apprehension of his Divine humanity, the adoring acceptance of his precious blood, the reception of the spiritual life-giving energy which went forth from him in word, depended on the Father's "drawing" - on those fundamental characteristics of appetite and capacity to receive the grace of Christ which are subjective and are referrible to the Father's good pleasure. Christ does not give the hunger, but the bread. From the beginning he saw the presence of the appetite after that which he came to bestow. Sometimes a morbid absence of all hunger, a moribund cessation of thirst, may be and is transformed into passionate and life-saving eagerness by The sight of food. The Father gives both the hunger and the food, the sense of need and the heavenly supply. The love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord, is the drawing of the Father through the Son to himself. The drawing of the Father is the giving of souls to the Son. A fresh thought is here added. This drawing, thus interpreted, is God's gift also to the human soul The question arises - If the Lord knew, why did he choose the traitor, or call Judas into the innermost circle (see ver. 71)?
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(65) No man can come unto me.--Unless the fields had been prepared it was in vain to sow the seed. No effort on the sower's part could make them receptive. The fact that they believed not, declared that their hearts were not prepared, but did not affect the goodness of the seed. This defection did not surprise Him. He had already used words which anticipated it. (Comp. Note on John 6:37; John 6:44.)It will be observed that this verse follows in the teaching of Christ immediately on the first clause of John 6:64, the second clause being a statement of the writer.
