Teks -- John 6:65 (NET)

6:65 So Jesus added, “Because of this I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has allowed him to come.”

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Robertson: Joh 6:65 - Except it be given him of the Father

Except it be given him of the Father ( ean mē ēi dedomenon autōi ek tou patros ).

Condition of third class with ean mē and periphrastic perfect passive subjunctive of didōmi . Precisely the same point as in Joh 6:44 where we have helkusēi instead of ēi dedomenon . The impulse to faith comes from God. Jesus does not expect all to believe and seems to imply that Judas did not truly believe.

Wesley: Joh 6:65 - Unless it be given

And it is given to those only who will receive it on God's own terms.

JFB: Joh 6:60-65 - Many . . . of his disciples

His pretty constant followers, though an outer circle of them.

JFB: Joh 6:60-65 - hard saying

Not merely harsh, but insufferable, as the word often means in the Old Testament.

JFB: Joh 6:60-65 - who can hear

Submit to listen to it.

JFB: Joh 6:65 - Therefore said I, &c.

That is, "That was why I spoke to you of the necessity of divine teaching which some of you are strangers to."

JFB: Joh 6:65 - except it were given him

Plainly showing that by the Father's "drawing" (Joh 6:44) was meant an internal and efficacious operation, for in recalling the statement here He says, it must be "given to a man to come" to Christ.

Clarke: Joh 6:65 - Therefore said I unto you

Therefore said I unto you - Joh 6:44. See the note there

Clarke: Joh 6:65 - Except it were given unto him

Except it were given unto him - None can come at first, unless he be drawn by the Father; and none can continue, unless he continue under those sacred influences which God gives only to those who do not receive his first graces in vain. St. Augustin himself grants that it was the sole fault of these disciples that they did not believe, and were saved. Quare non Poterant credere, si a me quaeratur, cito respondeo, quia Nolebant . If I be asked why these could not believe, I immediately answer, because they Would Not. Aug. Tract. 53, in Joan.

Calvin: Joh 6:65 - Therefore have I told you // Unless it be given him by my Father

65.Therefore have I told you He again states that faith is an uncommon and remarkable gift of the Spirit of God, that we may not be astonished that the Gospel is not received in every place and by all. For, being ill qualified to turn to our advantage the course of events, we think more meanly of the Gospel, because the whole world does not assent to it. The thought arises in our mind, How is it possible that the greater part of men shall deliberately reject their salvation? Christ therefore assigns a reason why there are so few believers, namely, because no man, whatever may be his acuteness, ¹⁷⁴ can arrive at faith by his own sagacity; for all are blind, until they are illuminated by the Spirit of God, and therefore they only partake of so great a blessing whom the Father deigns to make partakers of it. If this grace were bestowed on all without exception, it would have been unseasonable and inappropriate to have mentioned it in this passage; for we must understand that it was Christ’s design to show that not many believe the Gospel, because faith proceeds only from the secret revelation of the Spirit.

Unless it be given him by my Father He now uses the word give instead of the word which he formerly used, draw; by which he means that there is no other reason why God draws, than because out of free grace he loves us; for what we obtain by the gift and grace of God, no man procures for himself by his own industry.

TSK: Joh 6:65 - that no

that no : Joh 6:37, Joh 6:44, Joh 6:45, Joh 10:16, Joh 10:26, Joh 10:27, Joh 12:37-41; Eph 2:8, Eph 2:9; Phi 1:29; 1Ti 1:14; 2Ti 2:25; Tit 3:3-7; Heb 12:2; Jam 1:16-18

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Poole: Joh 6:65

He said this in Joh 6:44 , See Poole on "Joh 6:44" .

Gill: Joh 6:65 - And he said, therefore said I unto you // that no man can come to me, except it be given him of my Father

And he said, therefore said I unto you,.... Referring to Joh 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 Joh 6:44.