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"Does this seem incredible to you? What then if you were to see the Son of Man ascending again where He was before?
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It is the spirit which gives Life. The flesh confers no benefit whatever. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and are Life.
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But there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were that did not believe, and who it was that would betray Him.
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So He added, "That is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it be granted him by the Father."
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Thereupon many of His disciples left Him and went away, and no longer associated with Him.
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Jesus therefore appealed to the Twelve. "Will you go also?" He asked.
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"Master," replied Simon Peter, "to whom shall we go? Your teachings tell us of the Life of the Ages.
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And we have come to believe and know that *you* are indeed the Holy One of God."
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"Did not I choose you--the Twelve?" said Jesus, "and even of you one is a devil."
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He alluded to Judas, the son of Simon the Iscariot. For he it was who, though one of the Twelve, was afterwards to betray Him.