John 6:65

65 "This," he said, "is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has made it possible for him."

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 who gives life, the flesh is no help. The words I have spoken to you are Spirit and life,

64 yet some among you do not trust." (For Yeshua knew from the outset which ones would not trust him, also which one would betray him.)

65 "This," he said, "is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has made it possible for him."

66 From this time on, many of his talmidim turned back and no longer traveled around with him.

67 So Yeshua said to the Twelve, "Don't you want to leave too?"