John 6:68 BSB — MannaFest

John 6:68

Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

BSB

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ASV

Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.

KJV

Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.

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Tertullian

The Prescription Against Heretics (220)

Did not certain of the disciples turn back from the Lord Himself, When they were offended? Yet the rest did not therefore think that they must turn away from following Him, but because they knew that He was the Word of Life, and was come from God, they continued in His company to the very last, after He had gently inquired of them whether they also would go away.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century4 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Simon Peter answered - With his usual zeal and readiness, speaking in behalf of the whole, To whom shall we go? Where shall we find a more gracious master - a more powerful Redeemer - a more suitable Savior? Thou alone hast the words of eternal life. None can teach the doctrine of salvation but thyself; and none can confer the gift of eternal life but thou alone. Reader, let me ask, whither art thou going? Has the world - the devil - the flesh - the words of eternal life? Art thou turning thy back upon God and Christ?

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1646: “A Home Question and a Right Answer” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1882)

BROTHERS AND SISTERS, we believe that the righteous shall hold on his way and he that has clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger. We also believe that he that believes in Christ "has everlasting life" and, consequently, must live forever. The living water which Christ gives a man shall be in him a well of water springing up unto everlasting life. Our Lord has said of His sheep that they shall never perish, neither shall any pluck them out of His hands.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

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

These verses form a sorrowful conclusion to the famous discourse of Christ which occupies the greater part of the sixth chapter. They supply a melancholy proof of the hardness and corruption of man's heart. Even when the Son of God was the preacher, many seem to have heard in vain. Let us mark in this passage what an old sin apostasy is. We read that when our Lord had explained what He meant by "eating and drinking his flesh and blood,"—"After this, many of his disciples quit following him and did not accompany him any longer."

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 3210: “Clinging to Christ” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1910)

[See Sermons #2914, Volume 50—A MOURNFUL DEFECTION and #1646, Volume 28—A HOME QUESTION AND A RIGHT ANSWER.] I. WITHOUT any preface, we will proceed at once to consider the first division of our subject, which is that THE PREACHING OF THE DOCTRINES OF TRUTH IS OFTEN THE MEANS OF SEPARATING THE PRECIOUS FROM THE VILE. In the case before us, we see that the preaching of the Lord Jesus Christ acted like a great winnowing machine. His nominal disciples were like a heap of wheat and chaff all mingled together on the threshing floor.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἀπεκρίθη	apekrithē	Answered	G611 →
αὐτῷ	autō	Him	G846 →
Σίμων	Simōn	Simon	G4613 →
Πέτρος·	Petros	Peter;	G4074 →
κύριε,	kurie	Lord,	G2962 →
πρὸς	pros	to	G4314 →
τίνα	tina	whom	G5101 →
ἀπελευσόμεθα;	apeleusometha	will we go?	G565 →
ῥήματα	rhēmata	declarations	G4487 →
ζωῆς	zōēs	of life	G2222 →
αἰωνίου	aiōniou	eternal	G166 →
ἔχεις,	echeis	You have,	G2192 →

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

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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
Acts 4:12
Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”
leads to
- John 3:36
  Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- John 14:6
  Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
- 1 Corinthians 3:11
  For no one can lay a foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.
- 1 Timothy 2:5–6
  For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
- 1 John 5:11–12
  And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
Through
John 6:63
The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
leads to
- Galatians 5:25
  Since we live by the Spirit, let us walk in step with the Spirit.
- Hebrews 4:12
  For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
- Psalms 119:93
  I will never forget Your precepts, for by them You have revived me.