No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

No man can come to me (in the sense of ), except the Father which hath sent me - that is, except the Father as the Sender of Me, and to carry out the design of My mission.

Draw him - by an internal and efficacious operation; though by all the means of rational conviction, and in a way altogether consonant to their moral nature. (; ; Hosea 11:3.)

And I will raise him up at the last day. See the note at . Thus this weighty statement mounts to the following: 'Be not either startled or stumbled at these sayings; because it needs divine teaching to understand them, divine drawing to submit to them.'

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