(16) Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?
(16) The number of the professors of Christ is very small, and among them also there are some hypocrites, and those worse than all others.
Verse John 6:70. _HAVE NOT I CHOSEN YOU TWELVE_] Have I not, in an especial manner, called _you_ to believe in my name, and chosen you to be my disciples and the propagators of my doctrine! _Neverthel...
HAVE NOT I CHOSEN YOU TWELVE? - There is much emphasis in these words. Have not I - I, the Saviour, the Messiah, chosen you in mercy and in love, and therefore it will be a greater sin to betray me? C...
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...
ONE OF YOU IS. DEVIL. Is "diabolical" comes nearer the idea.. chose you and one has fallen away. The shadow of sorrow is still upon his spirit. The word in Greek is _diabolos,_ not _daimonion._...
After this many of his disciples turned back and would not walk with him any more. Jesus said to the Twelve: "Surely you too do not want to go away?" Simon Peter answered him: "Lord, to whom are we to...
THE LOAVES AND FISHES (John 6:1-13)...
HAVE. NOT CHOSEN. Did. not choose. Compare 13. 14, 15, 16, 19. Luke 6:13. TWELVE. the twelve. See App-141....
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...
_Have I not chosen you twelve_ Or, DID NOT I CHOOSE YOU THE TWELVE (comp. John 13:18)? Here probably the question ends: _and one of you is a devil_is best punctuated without an interrogation; it is a...
OPPOSITE RESULTS OF THE DISCOURSE...
ΑΥ̓ΤΟΙ͂Σ. He replies to all, not to their spokesman only. ΟΥ̓Κ ἘΓῺ ὙΜΑ͂Σ Τ. Δ. ἘΞ. Note the order throughout. DID NOT I CHOOSE (John 13:18; John 15:16) YOU THE TWELVE? Here probably the question ends:...
par Ver 60. Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it? 61. When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said to them,...
_SOME GO AWAY FROM JESUS -- JOHN 6:66-71:_ Jesus knew that some would not believe. He even knew about Judas. All who hear of Jesus have the opportunity to believe. Sadly, some rejected Jesus. "From th...
ΈΞΕΛΕΞΆΜΗΝ _aor. ind. med. от_ ΈΚΛΈΓΩ (G1586) избирать, выбирать для себя, ΔΙΆΒΟΛΟΣ (G1228) хулитель, дьявол (DJG, 171-72). Сатана сделал Иуду своим пособником, дьяволом в подчинении (Barrett). Единс...
DISCOURSE: 1645 ONE OF THE APOSTLES A DEVIL John 6:70. _Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?_ OUR blessed Lord and Saviour, in the whole of his deportment, wa...
JESUS ANSWERED—HAVE NOT I CHOSEN YOU TWELVE, &C.?— "The opinion of my character and mission, which thou, O Peter, hast expressed in thine own name, and in the name of thy brethren, is just: however, I...
THE TWELVE THEIR FINEST HOUR _Text 6:66-71_ 66 Upon this many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. 67 Jesus said therefore unto the twelve, Would ye also go away? 68 Simon P...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 6:60-71 The following is submitted as an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us: It is indeed pathetic to find that here in Galilee Christ met with no...
Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil? JESUS ANSWERED THEM, HAVE NOT I CHOSEN, [ exelexameen (G1586 ), 'DID I NOT CHOOSE'] YOU TWELVE, AND ONE OF YOU IS A DEV...
56 Just as Nicodemus failed to see the figure when our Lord spoke to him about the new birth, so now His followers fail to understand when He speaks of feeding on His flesh and blood. There is a subtl...
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...
EFFECTS OF THE DISCOURSE. Many disciples forsake Jesus, but the Twelve stand firm, and their faith is strengthened....
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...
ONE OF YOU IS A DEVIL. — But even the brightness of His hope in them is not uncrossed by a shadow; and this shadow is seen in its fearful darkness by the light of the truth, which, like a flash of ins...
CHAPTER 15 THE CRISIS IN GALILEE. “Many therefore of His disciples, when they heard this, said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it? But Jesus knowing in Himself that His disciples murmured at thi...
_The crisis in Galilee_....
ἀπεκρίθη … ἐστιν; this reply of Jesus to Peter's warmhearted confession at first sight seems chilling. Peter had claimed for himself and the rest a perfect loyalty; but this confidence of Peter's carr...
THE SIFTING OF JESUS' FOLLOWERS John 6:60-71 The teaching of this chapter involves a deliberate act of Christ to arrest the revolutionary movement that was gathering around His person and making Him...
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...
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...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 66-71. 1. The design of the discourse of this sixth chapter, so far as the apostles were concerned, was undoubtedly to strengthen their faith by calling t...
“ _Jesus answered them: Is it not I who have chosen you the Twelve?And one of you is a devil! Now he spoke of Judas_, _the son of Simon, Iscariot, for he it was that should betray him, he, one of the...
From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him (67) Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? (68) Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? t...
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...
_THE DOWNFALL OF JUDAS_ ‘Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil? He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon.’ John 6:70 Who was Judas? He was one of the Twelve chosen to be with t...
70._Jesus answered them. _Since Christ replies to all, we infer from it that all spake by the mouth of Peter. Besides, Christ now prepares and fortifies the eleven apostles against a new offense which...
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...
JESUS ANSWERED THEM,.... The disciples, taking Peter's answer to his question, as delivered in the name of them all, and as expressing their mind and sense: HAVE NOT I CHOSEN YOU TWELVE; not to grace...
Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil? Ver. 70. _Have not I chosen you twelve, &c._] _q.d._ If ye believe and will abide by it, look well to your footing; it wi...
_Jesus answered them_ And, yet even ye have not all acted, nor will you act, suitably to this knowledge and faith. For, _have I not chosen_, or elected, _you twelve_ To the honour and happiness of a p...
A DEVIL; under the control of Satan, and like him in character....
The loyalty of the Twelve:...
JESUS ANSWERED THEM, HAVE NOT I CHOSEN YOU TWELVE, AND ONE OF YOU IS A DEVIL?...
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...
66-71 When we admit into our minds hard thoughts of the words and works of Jesus, we enter into temptation, which, if the Lord in mercy prevent not, will end in drawing back. The corrupt and wicked h...
OLBGrk; CHOSEN, not to eternal life, but to the great office of an apostle. I chose but twelve amongst you, MATTHEW 10:1, and of those twelve one is diabolov, an accuser, or informer; a name by which...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Antiochians Whosoever, therefore, declares that there is but one God, only so as to take away the divinity of Christ, is a devil,[22] Tertullian An Answer to the Jews Fir...
John 6:70 Jesus G2424 answered G611 (G5662) them G846 I G1473 not G3756 choose G1586 (G5668) you...
THE DISCIPLES MUST NOW FACE UP TO WHO HE IS (JOHN 6:60). The discourse began with the challenge to the crowds. It then moved on to the challenge to the Judaisers. Now it becomes a challenge to the di...
‘Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?” Now he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for he it was who would betray him, being one of the twelve.' Yet...
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 6:70. JESUS ANSWERED THEM, DID NOT I CHOOSE YOU THE TWELVE? AND ONE OF YOU IS A DEVIL. Alas! even in this small circle there is an element that the light attracts not but repels. In good faith Pe...
AND ONE OF YOU IS A DEVIL (κα εξ υμων εις διαβολος εστιν). Jesus does not say that Judas was a devil when he chose him, but that he is one now. In John 13:2; John 13:27 John speaks of the devil ente...
DEVIL (Greek, "diabolos", "adversary"), usually translated "Satan". Compare (_ See Scofield) - (Revelation 20:10). _ Also see (John 13:27)....
John 6:70 I. Note first, the relation of Judas and Jesus Christ. He was one of the twelve selected Apostles; he had all the privileges, all the opportunities, of Christ's near and dear companions; he...
John 6:67 The Danger of Relapse I. Experience has so often proved that men have not laid fast hold on the grace which they had received, that we may well conceive our Lord to say to each successive c...
John 6:66 The First Confession In connection with this narrative many practical lessons suggest themselves. I select only the following: I. We are reminded by this history of the fluctuating charac...
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...
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...
YET ONE OF YOU IS A DEVIL. _Devil_ means "one who falsely accuses; one who is malicious." The shadow of sadness still hovers over Jesus. [Notice the progression in this chapter. In John 6:33 he announ...
_Have I not chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?_ JUDAS ISCARIOT I. WHO THEN WILL SAY THAT THE MEN WITH WHOM CHRIST BEGAN HIS NEW KINGDOM WERE MORE THAN MEN; not bone of our bone, but a prin...
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....
VER. 59. _This is the bread_, &c. He intimates the same thing which I have said at the end of the foregoing verse. For Christ came down from heaven not as man, but as God. Wherefore he who eateth Him...
_And we believe_, &c. The Greek has the article to both _Christ_ and _Son_ : _ό Χζιστὸς_, _the_ Christ promised by God, and expected for so many ages: _ό υίὸς_, _i.e._, _the Son of God_ by nature an...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 6:69. AND WE BELIEVE AND ARE SURE THAT THOU ART THE HOLY ONE OF GOD.—This is the reading of all the great MSS. א, B, C, D, L, and is adopted by Tischendorf, Trege...
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...
1 John 3:8; 1 Timothy 3:11; Acts 1:17; Acts 13:10; John 13:18;...
A devil [δ ι α β ο λ ο ς]. See on Matthew 4:1. The word is an adjective, meaning slanderous, but is almost invariably used in the New Testament as a noun, and with the definite article. The article is...
Jesus answered the — And yet even ye have not all acted suitable to this knowledge. Have I not chosen or elected you twelve? — But they might fall even from that election. Yet one of you — On this gra...