John 6:40

“For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him, should have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”

Jesus now repeats John 6:39 from a different point of view to emphasise its ideas. In John 6:39 these promises are made to ‘all whom He has given Me'. That is God's side of the issue. Now we have the other side. The promises are made to ‘every one who sees the Son and believes on Him'. So the ones who see the Son and believe in Him are the ones given to Him by the Father. The Father's gift is evidenced by the response of those who are given. And as a result of that gift they receive eternal life now, and the certainty of participation in the everlasting kingdom.

Notice the change to ‘My Father' used in connection with ‘the Son'. The general ‘the Father' has suddenly become personal. Now that He has made clear His own power and authority He can speak of God being ‘His own Father' in contrast with the supreme title ‘the Father' (compare John 5:17). The great supreme Father is uniquely ‘His own Father'. Using John's terminology in John 20:31 He is ‘the Son of God'.

The Spirit was now at work (John 6:63) gathering in the ones whom the Father had marked out, causing them to see Jesus and believe in Him, and Jesus was charged with their final safety. Here the whole Godhead is at work in saving men, guaranteeing their final deliverance, and the test of whether men are of the chosen is revealed by their response to Jesus.