Teks -- John 6:45 (NET)

6:45 It is written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to me.

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Robertson: Joh 6:45 - Taught of God

Taught of God ( didaktoi theou ).

A free quotation from Isa 54:13 with this phrase in the lxx. There is here the ablative case theou with the passive verbal adjective didaktoi (Robertson, Grammar , p. 516). In 1Th 4:9 we have the compound verbal theodidaktoi . The same use of didaktos with the ablative occurs in 1Co 2:13.

Robertson: Joh 6:45 - And hath learned

And hath learned ( kai mathōn ).

Second aorist active participle of manthanō . It is not enough to hear God’ s voice. He must heed it and learn it and do it. This is a voluntary response. This one inevitably comes to Christ.

Vincent: Joh 6:45 - Taught of God

Taught of God ( διδακτοὶ τοῦ Θεοῦ )

The idea is thrown into a compound adjective, θεοδίδακτοι , in 1Th 4:9.

Wesley: Joh 6:45 - Every man that hath heard

The secret voice of God, he, and he only believeth. Isa 54:13.

JFB: Joh 6:41-46 - Jews murmured

Muttered, not in our Lord's hearing, but He knew it (Joh 6:43; Joh 2:25).

JFB: Joh 6:41-46 - he said, I am the bread, &c.

Missing the sense and glory of this, and having no relish for such sublimities, they harp upon the "Bread from heaven." "What can this mean? Do we not know all about Him--where, when, and of whom He was born? And yet He says He came down from heaven!"

JFB: Joh 6:45 - written in the prophets

In Isa 54:13; Jer 31:33-34; other similar passages may also have been in view. Our Lord thus falls back upon Scripture authority for this seemingly hard saying.

JFB: Joh 6:45 - all taught of God

Not by external revelation merely, but by internal illumination, corresponding to the "drawing" of Joh 6:44.

JFB: Joh 6:45 - Every man therefore, &c.

That is, who hath been thus efficaciously taught of Him.

JFB: Joh 6:45 - cometh unto me

With absolute certainty, yet in the sense above given of "drawing"; that is, "As none can come to Me but as divinely drawn, so none thus drawn shall fail to come."

Clarke: Joh 6:45 - It is written in the prophets

It is written in the prophets - Isa 54:13; Jer 31:34

Clarke: Joh 6:45 - They shall be all taught of God

They shall be all taught of God - This explains the preceding verse. God teaches a man to know himself, that, finding his need of salvation, he may flee to lay hold on the hope which his heavenly Father has set before him in the Gospel. God draws men by his love, and by showing them what his love has done for them. Fear repels, but love attracts. He who is ever preaching the terrors of the law, and representing God as a vindictive judge, will never bring sinners to him. They are afraid of this terrible God: but they love him, who so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him might not perish, but have everlasting life.

Calvin: Joh 6:45 - It is written in the Prophets // And they shall be all taught by God // Whosoever therefore hath heard my Father // Cometh to me

45.It is written in the Prophets Christ confirms by the testimony of Isaiah what he said, that no man can come to him, unless he be drawn by the Father He uses the word prophets in the plural number, because all their prophecies had been collected into one volume, so that all the prophets might justly be accounted one book. The passage which is here quoted is to be found in Isa 54:13, where, speaking of the restoration of the Church, he promises to her, sons taught by the instruction of God Hence it may easily be inferred, that the Church cannot be restored in any other way than by God undertaking the office of a Teacher, and bringing believers to himself. The way of teaching, of which the prophet speaks, does not consist merely in the external voice, but likewise in the secret operation of the Holy Spirit. In short, this teaching of God is the inward illumination of the heart.

And they shall be all taught by God As to the word all, it must be limited to the elect, who alone are the true children of the Church. Now it is not difficult to see in what manner Christ applies this prediction to the present subject. Isaiah shows that then only is the Church truly edified, when she has her children taught by God Christ, therefore, justly concludes that men have not eyes to behold the light of life, until God has opened them. But at the same time, he fastens on the general phrase, all; because he argues from it, that all who are taught by God are effectually drawn, so as to come; and to this relates what he immediately adds,

Whosoever therefore hath heard my Father The amount of what is said is, that all who do not believe are reprobate and doomed to destruction; because all the sons of the Church and heirs of life are made by God to be his obedient disciples. Hence it follows, that there is not one of all the elect of God who shall not be a partaker of faith in Christ. ¹⁵⁴ Again, as Christ formerly affirmed that men are not fitted for believing, until they have been drawn, so he now declares that the grace of Christ, by which they are drawn, is efficacious, so that they necessarily believe.

These two clauses utterly overturn the whole power of free will, of which the Papists dream. For if it be only when the Father has drawn us that we begin to come to Christ, there is not in us any commencement of faith, or any preparation for it. On the other hand, if all come whom the Father hath taught, He gives to them not only the choice of believing, but faith itself. When, therefore, we willingly yield to the guidance of the Spirit, this is a part, and, as it were, a sealing of grace; because God would not draw us, if He were only to stretch out his hand, and leave our will in a state of suspense. But in strict propriety of language He is said to draw us, when He extends the power of his Spirit to the full effect of faith. They are said to hear God, who willingly assent to God speaking to them within, because the Holy Spirit reigns in their hearts.

Cometh to me He shows the inseparable connection that exists between him and the Father. For the meaning is, that it is impossible that any who are God’s disciples shall not obey Christ, and that they who reject Christ refuse to be taught by God; because the only wisdom that all the elect learn in the school of God is, to come to Christ; for the Father, who sent him, cannot deny himself.

Defender: Joh 6:45 - written in the prophets

This is a reference to the great promise of Isa 54:13."

TSK: Joh 6:45 - written // And they // Every

written : Mar 1:2; Luk 1:70, Luk 18:31

And they : Isa 2:3, Isa 54:13; Jer 31:33, Jer 31:34; Mic 4:2; Eph 4:21, Eph 4:22; 1Th 4:9; Heb 8:10,Heb 8:11, Heb 10:16

Every : Joh 6:37, Joh 6:65, Joh 5:38-40, Joh 10:27, Joh 16:14, Joh 16:15; Mat 11:27, Mat 17:5; Eph 1:17; 1Jo 4:1-3

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Poole: Joh 6:45 - It is written in the prophets // Every man that hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me

It is written in the prophets either in Isa 54:13 , or in the book of the prophets; for though the words be to be found only in Isaiah, yet words of the same import are also to be found in Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Joel, and Micah. All they whom the Lord hath chosen shall be taught of God.

Therefore (saith he) said I to you,

Every man that hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me Our Saviour proveth the doctrine which he had delivered to them, from the prophets, not because their authority was greater than his, or in any degree equal with his; but because the prophets and their writings were in greater authority and reputation with them.

Lightfoot: Joh 6:45 - And they shall be all taught of God

It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.   

[And they shall be all taught of God.] Isa 54:13; "And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord." The 'children of Israel,' 'of Jerusalem,' and 'of Zion,' are very frequently mentioned by the prophets for those Gentiles that were to be converted to the faith: taught before of the devil, by his idols and oracles; but they should become the children of the church, and be taught of God.   

The Rabbins do fondly apply these words of the prophet, when by thy children they understand the disciples of the wise men. "The disciples of the wise men multiply peace in the world; as it is written, 'All thy children shall be taught of God, and great shall be the peace of thy children.' Do not read, thy children; but thy builders."   

But who were there among mortals that were more taught of men and less of God; being learned in nothing but the traditions of the fathers? He must be taught of the Father that would come to the Son; not of those sorry fathers: he must be taught of God; not those masters of traditions.

PBC: Joh 6:45

The Holy Spirit writes the principle of the new covenant in the new heart that’s put in God’s child. What principle is Jesus talking about here? He’s talking about the principle of faith. Every person that has heard and learned of the Father comes to Jesus Christ. They’re drawn there by that faith that God plants in the soul. Jesus says that no man can come unto the Father except by Me. Those who have been taught of the Father are drawn there by Him through the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Haydock: Joh 6:45

Every one, therefore, that hath heard of the Father, and hath learned of him who I am, cometh to me by faith and obedience. As to others, when the Scripture says they are taught by God, this is to be understood of an interior spiritual instruction, which takes place in the soul, and does not fall under the senses; but not less real on that account, because it is the heart, which hears the voice of this invisible teacher.

Gill: Joh 6:45 - It is written in the prophets // and they shall be all taught of God // every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me

It is written in the prophets,.... In the book of the prophets, as the Ethiopic version renders it: the Jews divided the books of the Old Testament into three parts, the Law, the Prophets, and the Hagiographa; now in that division which was called the Prophets, are the following words: or in one of the prophets, namely, in Isa 54:13; so the Syriac version reads, "in the prophet"; though some think reference is had to more prophets, and more passages than one, as besides the above mentioned, Jer 31:34 Mic 4:2;

and they shall be all taught of God; by his Spirit to know themselves, and Jesus Christ; that is, all that are ordained to eternal life; all that are given to Christ, and are chosen in him; all the children of Zion, and who are the children of God; these are all, sooner or later, in a special manner, taught of God: and which does not intend mere external instructions, and objective teachings by the ministry of the word, for many are so taught, who never come to Christ; but special teachings, such as are attended with the energy of divine grace, and the power of the Spirit of God, who guides into all truth, savingly and spiritually: for this is to be understood of their being taught in the Gospel of Christ, and not in the law, as the Targum paraphrases it,

"all thy children shall learn in the law of the Lord.''

And that this prophecy refers to Gospel times, is clear from the citation and application of the first verse of it, to the church in the times of the apostles, Gal 4:27. The Jews themselves acknowledge the prophecy belongs to the times of the Messiah, to which they expressly apply ^u the words in Isa 54:5, "thy Maker is thy husband", &c. And one of their modern commentators allows ^w, that this very passage, "all thy children shall be taught of God", refers, לעתיד, "to the time to come"; that is, to the times of the Messiah: in this citation, those words, "thy children", are left out, to show that the words are not to be restrained to the people of the Jews, as they might seem by that clause, and to whom the Jews would limit them: for so they say ^x,

"they are truly taught of God from whom prophecy comes, which does not to all the world, but to Israel only, of whom it is written, "and all thy children are taught of God".''

But our Lord, by these words, instructs us, and would have us observe, that all that the Father hath given him, whether Jews or Gentiles, of whom he had been speaking in the preceding verses, should be taught of God; and so taught, as to be drawn and brought to him, and believe in him, and have everlasting life: wherefore he infers from hence, that every man, whether a Jew or a Gentile, that is taught of God, will come to him in a spiritual way, and trust in him for eternal life and happiness, as follows:

every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me; everyone that has heard the voice of the Father's love, grace, and mercy in the Gospel, and has learned of him the way of peace, life, and salvation by Christ, under the influence of his grace, comes unto Christ; being encouraged by the declarations and promises of grace he has heard and learned, and ventures his soul on Christ, and commits it to him; trusting and relying on his person, blood, righteousness, and sacrifice, for justification, pardon, atonement, acceptance with God, and eternal life.