John 6:65 BSB — MannaFest

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.”

BSB

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ASV

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.

KJV

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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John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

And he said, therefore said I unto you,.... Referring to Joh 6:44, where the substance of what is here said, is there delivered; though the Ethiopic version reads, therefore I say unto you, what follows: that no man can come to me, except it be given him of my Father; which is the same, as to be drawn by the Father; for faith in Christ is the gift of God, and coming to him, is owing to efficacious grace, and is not the produce of man's power and freewill; See Gill on Joh 6:44.

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Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Therefore said I unto you - Joh 6:44. See the note there. Except it were given unto him - None can come at first, unless he be drawn by the Father; and none can continue, unless he continue under those sacred influences which God gives only to those who do not receive his first graces in vain. St. Augustin himself grants that it was the sole fault of these disciples that they did not believe, and were saved. Quare non Poterant credere, si a me quaeratur, cito respondeo, quia Nolebant.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: John (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1869)

We learn from these verses that some of Christ's sayings seem hard to flesh and blood. We are told that "many" who had followed our Lord for a season, were offended when He spoke of "eating his flesh and drinking his blood." They murmured and said, "This is an hard saying; who can accept it?" Murmurs and complaints of this kind are very common. It must never surprise us to hear them. They have been, they are, they will be as long as the world stands. To some Christ's sayings appear hard to understand.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Therefore said I, &c.--that is, "That was why I spoke to you of the necessity of divine teaching which some of you are strangers to." except it were given him--plainly showing that by the Father's "drawing" (Joh 6:44) was meant an internal and efficacious operation, for in recalling the statement here He says, it must be "given to a man to come" to Christ.

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
ἔλεγεν·	elegen	He was saying;	G3004 →
διὰ	dia	Because of	G1223 →
τοῦτο	touto	this	G3778 →
εἴρηκα	eirēka	have I said	G2046 →
ὑμῖν	humin	to you	G4771 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
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 →
ᾖ	ē	it shall	G1510 →
δεδομένον	dedomenon	granted	G1325 →
αὐτῷ	autō	to him	G846 →
ἐκ	ek	from	G1537 →
τοῦ	tou	the	G3588 →
πατρός	patros	Father	G3962 →

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

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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 3:27
John replied, “A man can receive only what is given him from heaven.
leads to
- James 1:17
  Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
- 1 Corinthians 4:7
  For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?
- 1 Corinthians 15:10
  But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of…
- 1 Peter 4:10–11
  As good stewards of the manifold grace of God, each of you should use whatever gift he has received to serve one another.
Through
John 6:37
Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.
leads to
- Matthew 11:28
  Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
- John 6:39
  And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of those He has given Me, but raise them up at the last day.
- John 17:24
  Father, I want those You have given Me to be with Me where I am, that they may see the glory You gave Me because You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
- John 10:28–29
  I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.