John 6:65

65 And he sayde: Therfore sayde I vnto you: that no man can come vnto me except it were geven vnto him of my 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 sprete that quyckeneth the flesshe proffeteth nothinge. The wordes that I speake vnto you are sprete and lyfe.

64 But ther are some of you that beleve not. For Iesus knewe from the begynnynge which they were that beleved not and who shuld betraye him.

65 And he sayde: Therfore sayde I vnto you: that no man can come vnto me except it were geven vnto him of my father.

66 From that tyme many of his disciples wet backe and walked no moore with him.

67 Then sayde Iesus to the twelve: will ye alsoo goo awaye?