John 6:40

γάρ for δέ. πατρός μου for πέμψαντός με (from John 6:39) with אBCDLTU against A.

40. τοῦτο γὰρ … πατρός μου. This is the true reading; but the opening words of John 6:39-40, being very similar, have become confused in inferior MSS. The best have πατρός in John 6:40, where the Son is mentioned, not in John 6:39, where He is not. Moreover John 6:40 is explanatory of John 6:39, and opens with γάρ; it shews who are meant by πᾶν ὃ δέδ. μοι, viz. every one that contemplateth the Son and believeth on Him. Not ὁρῶν but θεωρῶν: the Jews had seen Jesus; they had not contemplated Him so as to believe. Θεωρεῖν is frequent in S. John and the Acts, elsewhere not; John 7:3; John 12:45; John 14:19; John 16:10; John 16:16; John 16:19; John 17:24; John 20:6; John 20:12; John 20:14.

ἀναστήσω. Here, still more easily than in John 6:39, ἀναστήσω may be future. Ἐγὼ is very emphatic; ‘by My power as Messiah.’

Some think that a break in the discourse must be made here; John 6:25-40 being spoken on the shore of the lake, John 6:41-58 in the synagogue at Capernaum to a somewhat different audience.