Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of John 6:65
And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
65. Therefore ] Better, For this cause (Joh 12:18; Joh 12:27): see on Joh 5:16; Joh 5:18, Joh 7:22, Joh 8:47.
said I unto you ] Joh 6:44; comp. Joh 6:37, and see notes on both.
were given unto him of my Father ] Have been given unto him of the Father.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 65. 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. If I be asked why these could not believe, I immediately answer, because they WOULD NOT. Aug. Tract. 53, in Joan.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
He said this in Joh 6:44, See Poole on “Joh 6:44“.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
65. Therefore said I, &c.thatis, “That was why I spoke to you of the necessity of divineteaching which some of you are strangers to.”
except it were givenhimplainly showing that by the Father’s “drawing”(Joh 6:44) was meant aninternal and efficacious operation, for in recallingthe statement here He says, it must be “given to a man tocome” to Christ.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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 comments on Joh 6:44].
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Except it be given him of the Father ( ). Condition of third class with and periphrastic perfect passive subjunctive of . Precisely the same point as in verse 44 where we have instead of . The impulse to faith comes from God. Jesus does not expect all to believe and seems to imply that Judas did not truly believe.
Fuente: Robertson’s Word Pictures in the New Testament
1) “And he said, Therefore said I unto you,” (kai elegen dia touto eireka humin) “And he explained, therefore I have told you,” explained at length, Joh 6:43-47.
2) ”That no man can come unto me,” (hoti oudeis dunatai elthein pros me) “That no one is enabled to come to me,” by volition, will, or choice; No man can do it except he be called of God, moved, enlightened by His spirit, and made to know his need of and provision for salvation through faith in Jesus Christ, Pro 1:19-31. Even as Saul of Tarsus was, Act 9:4-6.
3) “Except it were given unto him of my Father.” (ean me e dedomenon auto ek tou patros) “Unless it is having been given or doled out to him of my Father,” Joh 6:37; Joh 6:44; Eph 2:8-9; Rom 10:17; Joh 1:11-13.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
65. Therefore have I told you. He again states that faith is an uncommon and remarkable gift of the Spirit of God, that we may not be astonished that the Gospel is not received in every place and by all. For, being ill qualified to turn to our advantage the course of events, we think more meanly of the Gospel, because the whole world does not assent to it. The thought arises in our mind, How is it possible that the greater part of men shall deliberately reject their salvation? Christ therefore assigns a reason why there are so few believers, namely, because no man, whatever may be his acuteness, (174) can arrive at faith by his own sagacity; for all are blind, until they are illuminated by the Spirit of God, and therefore they only partake of so great a blessing whom the Father deigns to make partakers of it. If this grace were bestowed on all without exception, it would have been unseasonable and inappropriate to have mentioned it in this passage; for we must understand that it was Christ’s design to show that not many believe the Gospel, because faith proceeds only from the secret revelation of the Spirit.
Unless it be given him by my Father. He now uses the word give instead of the word which he formerly used, draw; by which he means that there is no other reason why God draws, than because out of free grace he loves us; for what we obtain by the gift and grace of God, no man procures for himself by his own industry.
(174) “ Tant aigu soit il.”
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(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 sowers 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 Joh. 6:37; Joh. 6:44.)
It will be observed that this verse follows in the teaching of Christ immediately on the first clause of Joh. 6:64, the second clause being a statement of the writer.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
65. No man can come except Men, apart from the guidance and aid of the Father, furnished by the Spirit and the various means of grace, are hemmed into sin. They can neither will nor do acceptably to God. The Father first enables, but not obliges. For grace used, he adds more grace. For drawings obeyed, he adds more drawings. And when they so obey his drawings as to be ready for Christ, he gives and they come. But unless they use his grace and obey his drawings both will be withdrawn. But none ever missed the drawing of God who has not misused it.
Given of my Father And it was not given in consequence of their not having obediently learned and accepted previous grace, and having sunk themselves into gross hardness. So that because of their primary wilfulness the drawing could not reach them, and for want of those drawings it was not given them to come. See notes on Joh 6:26; Joh 6:37-39; Joh 6:44-45.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Joh 6:65. Therefore said I unto you “Because I knew that there were false-hearted pretenders among you, therefore, for your conviction and caution, and for distinguishingreal from nominal believers, I told you before (Joh 6:44.) that no man can savinglybelieve in me, unless my Father draw him by his Spirit, and thereby give him grace and strength to come to me. But God commences and continues this divine drawing in every heart of man, till his influences be so resisted as to oblige him to withdraw himself from the soul; for he will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.” See 1Ti 2:4 and the note on Joh 6:37.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Joh 6:65 . See on Joh 6:37 ; Joh 6:44 .
] because many of you believe not, and therefore, though there is in them the outward appearance of discipleship, they lack the inward divine preparation.
. .] from my Father . See Bernhardy, p. 227 f; comp. Plat. Lys . p. 104 B: . Soph. Philoct . 1301: . Xen. Anab . i. 1. 6; Hellen . iii. 1. 6.
Fuente: Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer’s New Testament Commentary
65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
Ver. 65. Therefore said I unto you ] Here some may object, if faith be not in man’s power, why doth he yet complain? and why are any destroyed for lack of faith? Hereunto I might answer with the apostle, “Nay, but, O man, who art thou that replies, (or chattest) against God?” But for further satisfaction, know, 1. That faith was once in man’s power. 2. That no unbeliever doth what he might do to believe. 3. That unbelief is in a man’s power, who wittingly and willingly, and by his own election, forsaketh his own mercies, Joh 2:8 ; Mat 23:37 ; there. is an uncounsellable obstinacy in it.
Unless it be given him ] That divine traction, then, Joh 6:44 , is a free gift: there is no meritum ex congruo. Our effectual conversion is gratuita et inopinata, Eph 1:11 . We cannot, concur or contribute toward it. Nothing can prepare for grace but grace. Neither can we bring forth good things any otherwise than as Sarah’s dead womb brought forth a child; it was not a child of nature, but of the mere promise.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
65. ] These unbelievers had not that drawing to Christ , which leads ( Joh 6:44 ) to true coming to Him. Observe the parallelism between here, and , Joh 6:37 . Both these gifts are in the Father’s power.
Fuente: Henry Alford’s Greek Testament
Joh 6:65 . He therefore points this out, . All that brings men to Christ is the Father’s gift.
Fuente: The Expositors Greek Testament by Robertson
Therefore = For this cause. Greek. dia (App-104. Joh 6:2) touto.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
65.] These unbelievers had not that drawing to Christ, which leads (Joh 6:44) to true coming to Him. Observe the parallelism between here, and , Joh 6:37. Both these gifts are in the Fathers power.
Fuente: The Greek Testament
Joh 6:65. , given) by the drawing of grace.
Fuente: Gnomon of the New Testament
Joh 6:65
Joh 6:65
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.-Because many would forsake him, and Judas would betray him, he gave them this warning that none could come except the Father draw him. This class was not drawn by the Father in that they had not hearkened to his teachings. God had given them to him. See verses 44 and 45.
Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary
that no: Joh 6:37, Joh 6:44, Joh 6:45, Joh 10:16, Joh 10:26, Joh 10:27, Joh 12:37-41, Eph 2:8, Eph 2:9, Phi 1:29, 1Ti 1:14, 2Ti 2:25, Tit 3:3-7, Heb 12:2, Jam 1:16-18
Reciprocal: Joh 6:35 – he that cometh Joh 8:47 – General Phi 2:13 – to will
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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Jesus then went back to the forepart of his speech (verses 44, 45), and made a specific application of that passage to Judas. It is not given to any man by the Father to come to Christ who will not accept the words of his Son. Judas refused to believe them in the sense of heeding them, therefore God would not permit him to be attached to his Son in the great work of human redemption.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
Joh 6:65. And he said, For this cause have I said unto you, that no one can come unto me, except it have been given unto him of the Father. They had seemed genuine disciples, but His words had been to them a stumbling-block and had not brought life. They had not really come to Him: they had not received from the Father the gift of coming unto Jesus, but the failure had been by their own fault. Having resisted the drawing of the Father, they had lacked the due preparation of heart for receiving the words of Jesus (see the notes on Joh 6:37; Joh 6:44).
Fuente: A Popular Commentary on the New Testament
Again Jesus expressed His belief that the human decision to believe or not believe rested ultimately in God’s elective purpose (Joh 6:37; Joh 6:44). Thus He did not view the unbelief of His disciples as an indication that He had failed. Notwithstanding, He did not present the importance of belief on Himself as something His hearers could take or leave either. It meant the difference between life and death to them, and He urged them to believe.