Tertullian A Treatise on the Soul
the devil."[116]
Tertullian Against Praxeas
and, "No man can come to me, except the Father draw him; "[333]
Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book V
Concerning these, he says, the Saviour has declared, "No one can come unto me, except my heavenly Father draw some one unto me."[95]
Verse 44. _EXCEPT THE FATHER - DRAW HIM_] But how is a man drawn? St. _Augustin_ answers from the poet, _Trahit sua quemque voluptas_; a man is attracted by that which he delights in. Show green herb...
NO MAN CAN COME TO ME - This was spoken by Jesus to reprove their complaints - “Murmur not among yourselves.” They objected to his doctrine, or complained against it, because he claimed to be greater...
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The Feeding of the Five Thousand Men. (John 6:1 .)_ 2. The Attempt to Make Him King, (John 6:15 .) 3. The Stormy Sea. “It is I, be not afraid.” (John 6:16 .) 4. The Discourse on the...
THE MURMURING OF THE JEWS. The changes of persons here (_cf._ John 6:22, the multitude), and of place in John 6:59, show that this chapter is not intended to record a continuous conversation, but to g...
NO MAN CAN COME TO ME, EXCEPT THE FATHER WHICH HATH SENT ME DRAW HIM. Two elements are concerned in coming to Christ, the human will and the divine drawing. No man comes unless he wills to come. It wa...
a So the Jews kept murmuring about him, because he said: "I am the bread which came down from heaven." They kept saying: "Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can...
THE LOAVES AND FISHES (John 6:1-13)...
NO MAN. No (App-105) one. CAN COME. is able to come (two verbs). EXCEPT. Greek. _ean me._ App-118 and App-105. DRAW HIM. Those thus _drawn_ are defined in John 6:37 as "all "those who are _given_ (w...
John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. The Work We here enter on the second portion of the first main division of the Gospel, thus subdivided: The Work (1) among _Jews_, (2) among _Samaritans_, (3) among _Galilean...
_draw him_ It is the same word as is used John 12:32; -will draw all men unto Me." The word does not necessarily imply force, still less irresistible force, but merely _attraction_of some kind, some i...
The Discourse on the Son as the Support of Life God's revealed word and created world are unhappily alike in this; that the most beautiful places in each are often the scene and subject of strife. Th...
THE DISCOURSE ON THE SON AS THE SUPPORT OF LIFE God’s revealed word and created world are unhappily alike in this; that the most beautiful places in each are often the scene and subject of strife. Thi...
_Identification of the Spiritual Bread with Christ _...
43–46. Digression on the difficulty of coming to Christ as a believer...
ΟΥ̓ΔΕῚΣ ΔΎΝΑΤΑΙ. It is a moral impossibility: comp. John 3:3; John 3:5; John 5:44; John 8:43; John 12:3
par Ver 41. The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. 42. And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how i...
_TEACHING ABOUT THE BREAD OF LIFE -- JOHN 6:22-65:_ On the next day the multitude realized that Jesus was gone and they went to find Him. The people asked Jesus how or when He got to Capernaum. Jesus...
ΈΛΘΕΪ́Ν _aor. act. inf. от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064) приходить. _Inf._ с гл. ΔΎΝΑΤΑΙ, ΠΈΜΨΑΣ _aor. act. part. (adj.)_, _см._ John 6:38. ΈΛΚΎΣΗ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΈΛΚΎΩ (G1670) тяпуть. О возможных значениях...
DISCOURSE: 1640 MAN’S INABILITY TO COME TO CHRIST John 6:44. _No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him_. THERE are in the Holy Scriptures many doctrines which prove an off...
NO MAN CAN COME TO ME, EXCEPT THE FATHER—DRAW HIM, &C.— In explaining this passage, we will, _first,_ shew the propriety of our Lord's answer; _secondly,_ give a plain and full explication of it; and,...
THE BREAD OF LIFE, II _Text 6:41-51_ 41 The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, I am the bread which came down out of heaven. 42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 6:41-59 The following is submitted as an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us: The first thirteen verses of John 6 describe the feeding of the multi...
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...
34 Eating to supply the demands of physical hunger and thirst is but a symbol of the spiritual satisfaction apart from which life is debased to mere existence. Desires and aspirations for spiritual su...
THE BREAD OF LIFE John 6:1 to John 7:1. Feeding the five thousand. Walking upon the sea. Discourse upon the bread of life. Defection of many disciples. The Apostles stand firm. Returning from Jerusal...
DISCOURSE ON THE BREAD OF LIFE. As in John 4 Jesus is the giver of 'living water,' so here He is the 'living bread' or 'manna' of the soul. Such language had been to some extent prepared for by OT. re...
'Your murmuring and unbelief are caused by your resistance to the “drawing” of the Father, who bids you believe on Me. You have hardened your heart, and closed your ears to His teaching, so that now y...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 6 JESUS FEEDS 5000 MEN AND THEIR FAMILIES 6:1-15 V1 After this, Jesus went across Lake *Galilee. (Lake *Galilee was cal...
NO MAN CAN COME TO ME. — The subject is still the mystery of the varying effects of His revelation on the minds of men. These depend upon their present mental state, which is itself the result of acce...
John 6:44 NOTE ON CHAP. VI., VERS. 37, 44, 45. Three terms are used in these verses which call for examination,-“giving,” “drawing,” “teaching.” The two latter are used in a connection which leaves...
CHAPTER 14 JESUS THE BREAD OF LIFE. John 6:1. In this chapter John follows the same method as in the last. He first relates the sign, and then gives our Lord's interpretation of it. As to the Samari...
In this paragraph we are first told how the Jews were staggered by our Lord's affirming that He had come down from heaven; second, how Jesus explains that in order to understand and receive Him they m...
THE FOOD OF ETERNAL LIFE John 6:41-51 That phrase, _the last day,_ was constantly on the Master's lips, John 6:39-40; John 6:44; John 6:54; John 12:48. It is an indefinite expression for those final...
The whole chapter really records things resulting from the conflict recorded in the previous one. Having crossed the sea, Jesus first fed the multitude, and they, enamored of His ability, attempted to...
Draw him. Not by compulsion, nor by laying the free-will under any necessity, but by the strong and sweet motions of his heavenly grace. (Challoner) --- We are drawn to the Father by some secret pleas...
CHAPTER 33 PUZZLE OF THE MULTITUDE John 6:22-71. _“On the following day the multitude, standing beyond the sea, saw that there was no other ship except one, and that Jesus did not go along with His d...
“ _Jesus therefore answered and said to them: Murmur not among yourselves:_ 44. _No one can come to me except the Father who sent me draw him; and I will raise him up at the last day._ ” In other word...
2. VV. 41-51. A murmur which rises in the assembly (John 6:41-42) forces Jesus to declare to the Jews distinctly their incompetency in this matter (John 6:43-46); after which, with an increasing solem...
II. THE DISCOURSES: JOHN 6:22-65. This section contains, first an historical introduction (John 6:22-24), then a series of conversations and discourses (John 6:25-65)....
The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save that one whereinto his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went not with h...
The opening verses (John 1:1-18) introduce the most glorious subject which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the most glorious in point of theme, but in the profoundest point...
44._No man can come to me, unless the Father, who hath sent me, draw him. _He does not merely accuse them of wickedness, but likewise reminds them, that it is a peculiar gift of God to embrace the doc...
In chapter 6, then, it is the Lord come down from heaven, humbled and put to death, not now as the Son of God, one with the Father, the source of life; but as He who, although He was Jehovah and at th...
NO MAN CAN COME TO ME,.... That is, by faith, as in John 6:35; for otherwise they could corporeally come to him, but not spiritually; because they had neither power nor will of themselves; being dead...
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. Ver. 44. _No man can come to me, except, &c._] Down then goes the Dagon of free will, wi...
_The Jews then murmured at him_ The dispositions of the greatest part of the Jews being carnal, the doctrine of our Lord respecting the spiritual nature of the blessings which his followers were to re...
CAN COME TO ME; trust in me as his Saviour. DRAW HIM; by teaching him his need of a Saviour, and leading him to trust in him for salvation. The drawing of the Father mentioned in the New Testament, an...
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....
The murmuring Jews:...
FEEDING THE FIVE THOUSAND (vs.1-13) The setting here is no longer Jerusalem, but Galilee, and the contrast to the beginning of chapter 5 is striking. For here grace shines out beautifully, available...
36-46 The discovery of their guilt, danger, and remedy, by the teaching of the Holy Spirit, makes men willing and glad to come, and to give up every thing which hinders applying to him for salvation....
That by drawing here is not to be understood any coaction, or force upon the will, is a thing on all hands out of question; but whether by it be only to be understood a rational drawing by arguments,...
John 6:44 one G3762 can G1410 (G5736) come G2064 (G5629) to G4314 Me G3165 unless G3362 Father...
THE BREAD OF LIFE, EATING HIS FLESH AND DRINKING HIS BLOOD (JOHN 6:26). The narrative that follows must be carefully divided up if it is to be properly understood. There are in fact three clearly dif...
THE LIFE-GIVING BREAD IS FOR THOSE DRAWN BY THE FATHER AND HE WILL GIVE HIS FLESH FOR THE LIFE OF THE WORLD (JOHN 6:41). At this point there would appear to be an important change in the narrative. Up...
‘Jesus answered and said to them, “Do not murmur among yourselves. No man can come to me except my Father who has sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.” Jesus now tried vainly to...
In the miracle of the multiplying of the bread Jesus has symbolically presented Himself as the true bread of life. This thought is now unfolded in the various discourses with which the remainder of th...
John 6:44. NO ONE CAN COME TO ME EXCEPT THE FATHER WHICH SENT ME SHALL HAVE DRAWN HIM. In these words He would tell them that (as their unbelief and resistance show) they have not that _special_ divin...
EXCEPT THE FATHER DRAW HIM (εαν μη ελκυση αυτον). Negative condition of third class with εαν μη and first aorist active subjunctive of ελκυω, older form ελκω, to drag like a net (John 21:6), or swor...
John 6:44 These words have often been supposed to mean that no one can become a Christian unless an irresistible influence is put forth by God for his conversion. I think, if you look at the words of...
John 6:30. _They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work? Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them b...
These people had crossed the Sea of Galilee, and gone to Capernaum, «seeking for Jesus.» It seemed a very hopeful sign that they should be willing to make such efforts to find Christ, but see how the...
John 6:22. The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save that one whereinto his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went...
John 6:41. _The Jews then murmured at him,_ That is, at the Christ, John 6:41. _Because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whos...
John 6:41. _The Jews then murmured at him,_ That is, at our blessed Lord: «The Jews then murmured at him,» John 6:41. Because he said, I am the bread which came down from heavens. And they said, Is...
We shall read tonight part of that blessed sixth chapter of John's Gospel, beginning at the forty-first verse. John 6:41. _The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came do...
John 6:41. The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it t...
CONTENTS: Feeding the 5000. Walking on the sea. Discourse on the Bread of Life. Peter's confession of faith. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, disciples, boy, Moses, Joseph. CONCLUSION: Jesus Christ, the true...
John 6:2. _A great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles._ But being dull of apprehension, they seemed to have no idea that the Lord could feed the hungry, as well as heal the sick. Ch...
DRAWS HIM TO ME. Two things are required to come to Christ; the human desire; the divine drawing. Man has the choice to refuse, or to come (see John 5:40; Matthew 23:37; Revelation 22:17). [Lazarus, i...
_The Jews then murmured at Him because He said, I am the bread which came down from heaven_ WEIGHTY TRUTHS I. THAT CHRIST’S LOWLY CONDITION IS A STUMBLING-BLOCK TO THE NATURAL MAN. 1. Had He come a...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 6:44 NO ONE CAN COME TO ME UNLESS. No human being has the ability to come to Christ unless God the Father DRAWS HIM, that is, gives him the desire to do so....
CHAPTER 6 VER. 1. _After this_, &c. Tiberias is here named, because the desert in which Christ fed the five thousand was near to Tiberias. _After this_, not immediately, but almost a year afterwards....
_No man can come to Me_, &c. Observe, (1.) Christ might, as S. Chrysostom observes, have answered and said, "It is not wonderful that you, 0 ye Jews, neither understand nor believe the things which I...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 6:22. NONE OTHER BOAT, RATHER LITTLE SHIP (πλοιάριον).—The meaning of this long and complicated sentence is plain. A number of the crowd who had been present when...
EXPOSITION JOHN 6:1 2. _Christ declares himself to be the Sustainer and Protector of the life of which he is the Source_. JOHN 6:1 (1) _The supply of human wants illustrated by a well known _"_si...
Now we have an indeterminate rate of time. Jesus was in Jerusalem when He was saying these things, they were as a result of this blind man...or the lame man, rather, who was healed there at the pool o...
Colossians 2:12; Ephesians 2:4; Hosea 11:4; Isaiah 44:18; Jer
Draw [ε λ κ υ σ η]. Two words for drawing are found in the New Testament, surw and eJlkuw. The distinction is not habitually observed, and the meanings often overlap. Surw is originally to drag or tra...
THE BREAD OF LIFE John 6:33 INTRODUCTORY WORDS When the devil said to Christ. "If Thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread," the Lord quickly unsheathed the sword of the Spiri...
Christ having checked their murmuring, continues what he was saying, John 6:40. No man comes to me, unless my Father draw him — No man can believe in Christ, unless God give him power: he draws us fir...
In which words we have something necessarily implied, and something positively expressed. The misery of man in his natural and unsanctified state is here implied; he is far distant from Christ, and un...