John 6:44 BSB — MannaFest

John 6:44

“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

No man can come to me, except the Father that sent me draw him: and I will raise him up in the last day.

KJV

No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

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Commentary

1 voice

Ambrose of Milan

Exposition of the Christian Faith 2.12.104 (397)

And you say that the Son of God is subject by reason of weakness—the Son, to whom the Father brings men and women that he may raise them up in the last day. Does this seem in your eyes to be subjection where the kingdom is prepared for the Father and the Father brings it to the Son? There is no place for perversion of words since the Son gives the kingdom to the Father and none is preferred before him.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Except the Father - draw him - But how is a man drawn? St. Augustin answers from the poet, Trahit sua quemque voluptas; a man is attracted by that which he delights in. Show green herbage to a sheep, he is drawn by it: show nuts to a child, and he is drawn by them. They run wherever the person runs who shows these things: they run after him, but they are not forced to follow; they run, through the desire they feel to get the things they delight in.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The New Park Street Pulpit, Sermon No. 182: “Particular Redemption” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1858)

COMING to Christ” is a very common phrase in Holy Scripture. It is used to express those acts of the soul wherein, leaving at once our self-righteousness, and our sins, we fly unto the Lord Jesus Christ, and receive his righteousness to be our covering, and his blood to be our atonement.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2386: “The Drawings Of Divine Love” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1894)

THERE is something here which troubles many seeking souls. They hear the Gospel preached in this manner, "Look and live," or, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved." This comforts them and they say to themselves, "This is a way in which we can run. We delight to be told of salvation by faith in Christ." By-and-by, they hear a discourse upon our Savior's Words, "You must be born again," or they listen to descriptions of the inward experience of a child of God.

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
οὐδεὶς	oudeis	No [one]	G3762 →
δύναται	dunatai	is able	G1410 →
ἐλθεῖν	elthein	to come	G2064 →
πρός	pros	to	G4314 →
με,	me	Me,	G3165 →
ἐὰν	ean	only	G1437 →
μὴ	mē	unless	G3361 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
πατὴρ	patēr	Father	G3962 →
ὁ	ho	the [one]	G3588 →
πέμψας	pempsas	having sent	G3992 →
με	me	Me	G3165 →
ἑλκύσῃ	helkusē	shall draw	G1670 →
αὐτόν,	auton	him,	G846 →
κἀγὼ	kagō	and I myself	G1473 →G2532 →
ἀναστήσω	anastēsō	will raise up	G450 →
αὐτὸν	auton	him	G846 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τῇ	tēa	the	G3588 →
ἐσχάτῃ	eschatē	last	G2078 →
ἡμέρᾳ.	hēmera	day.	G2250 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
John 12:32
And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw everyone to Myself.”
leads to
- John 8:28
  So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own, but speak exactly what the Father…
- John 3:14
  Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
- 1 Peter 2:24
  He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
- 1 John 2:2
  He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
- John 1:7
  He came as a witness to testify about the Light, so that through him everyone might believe.
Through
John 6:65
Then Jesus said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless the Father has granted it to him.”
leads to
- John 6:44–45
  “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
- John 6:37
  Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.
- John 3:27
  John replied, “A man can receive only what is given him from heaven.