John 6:65

65 And he said, This is why I said to you, No man is able to come to me if he is not given the power to do so 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 The spirit is the life giver; the flesh is of no value: the words which I have said to you are spirit and they are life.

64 But still some of you have no faith. For it was clear to Jesus from the first who they were who had no faith, and who it was who would be false to him.

65 And he said, This is why I said to you, No man is able to come to me if he is not given the power to do so by the Father.

66 Because of what he said, a number of the disciples went back and would no longer go with him.

67 So Jesus said to the twelve, Have you a desire to go away?