John 6:65

65 So He added, "That is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it be granted him by the Father."

John 6:65 Meaning and Commentary

John 6:65

And he said, therefore said I unto you
Referring to ( John 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 John 6:44).

John 6:65 In-Context

63 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.

64 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.

65 So He added, "That is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it be granted him by the Father."

66 Thereupon many of His disciples left Him and went away, and no longer associated with Him.

67 Jesus therefore appealed to the Twelve. "Will you go also?" He asked.