John 6:64

ἐξ ὑμῶν τινες. Of you some; for the order comp. ἐξ ὑμ. εἶς, John 6:70. Some followed Him without believing on Him.

ἐξ�. The meaning of ἀρχή always depends on the context (see on John 1:1; John 15:27). Here the most natural limit is ‘from the begining of their discipleship.’ Comp. John 2:24-25. Οἳ οὐ πιστ. expresses a fact, οἳ μὴ π. a thought; ‘those, whoever they might be, who believed not:’ John 5:33; John 14:24; John 15:24.

τίς ἐστιν ὁ π. αὐ. Who it was that would betray Him. To ask, ‘Why then did Jesus choose Judas as an Apostle?’ is to ask in a special instance for an answer to the insoluble enigma ‘Why does Omniscience allow wicked persons to be born? Why does Omnipotence allow evil to exist?’ The tares once sown among the wheat, both ‘grow together till the harvest,’ and share sunshine and rain alike. Παραδίδοναι means to ‘hand over, deliver up;’ John 18:30; John 18:35; John 19:16.