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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But there are some of you that believe not,.... Notwithstanding the ministry they sat under, and the words they heard; for though they professed to believe in Jesus, as the Messiah, yet they did not truly believe in him; their faith was not a living faith, or of a spiritual kind, but a mere historical and temporary one, and was feigned and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him. And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father. “No man “ — no, not even an apostle, — not the one who ate bread with Christ, and was his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But there are some of you that believe not. And if they do not believe, then they miss the whole soul of the thing.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him. And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father. No, not even though he were an apostle — though he came so near to Christ as to pray to him and hear his secret and most private...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But there are some of you that believe not. Some of Christ’s own disciples, some who had kept him company, believer! not This was a very sad statement for Jesus to be obliged to make; but it must be made today about many professed Christians: “There are some of you that believe not.” Joh_6:64. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him. And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father. From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. So it seems that a man may be recognized as a disciple of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father. From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. It often happens, in the ministry of a faithful preacher, that he has to say unpleasant things, and there are some who withdraw because of his preaching of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
From that [time] many of his disciples went back,.... Not any of the twelve apostles, for they are distinguished from these in the next verse; nor any of the seventy disciples, for their names were written in heaven, and could not apostatize totally and finally, as these did; but some of the multitude of the disciples, who followed Christ, heard...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. Did he want them? I trow not He desired not to have around him a mass of chaff, but the pure winnowed corn. Consequently he used his own word as the winnowing fan. And I believe, brothers and sisters, that wherever Christ is faithfully preached, preaching is the best form...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then said Jesus unto the twelve,.... "To his own twelve", as the Persic version reads; that is, to his twelve apostles, whom he had chosen to that office: Christ takes no notice of those that went away from him, he showed no concern about them; he knew what they were, that the truth of grace was not in them, and that they did not belong to him,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? Then Simon Peter — Who was always to the front, ever ready to speak, “Simon, Peter” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then said Jesus unto the twelve,-The choice and pick of all his followers: “Then said Jesus unto the twelve,”—
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Will ye also go away? Then Simon Peter — Who was the ready tongue of the apostles: “Then Simon Peter” —
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then Simon Peter answered him,.... Who was strong in the faith of Christ, and full of zeal for him, and love to him; and who was the mouth of the apostles, and always forward to speak out of the abundance and sincerity of his heart, in their name; believing, that they all of them, for he had now no suspicion of Judas, no more than of the rest, had...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God. Jesus answered them, have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil? Our Lord often surprises us by the way in which he speaks; he does not say what we should have expected to hear...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. That was a very conclusive way of answering one question by another: “Will ye also go away?” “Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.” Brother, sister, if we wandered from Christ, where could we go? And how can we leave him when he has the words...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And we believe and are sure,.... Or know of a certainty: they believed upon the first call of them by Christ, and their following of him, that he was the true Messiah; and they came to an assurance of it, by the miracles he wrought, and by the doctrines which he taught; their faith, how weak soever it might be at first, rose up to a full assurance...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God. Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil? He spoke of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon : for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Jesus answered them,.... The disciples, taking Peter's answer to his question, as delivered in the name of them all, and as expressing their mind and sense: have not I chosen you twelve; not to grace and glory, to holiness and happiness; though this was true of eleven of them, but to be apostles: and one of you is a devil? or like to one, is a...