John 6:64

But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him. BUT THERE ARE SOME OF YOU THAT BELIEVE NOT. FOR JESUS KNEW FROM THE BEGINNING WHO THEY WERE THAT BELIEVED NOT, AND WHO SHOULD BETRAY HIM. As if He had said, 'But it matters little to some of you in what sense I speak, for ye believe not.' This was said, adds the Evangelist, not merely of the outer, but of the inner circle of His disciples; because He knew the traitor, though it was not yet time to expose him....

64._But there are some of you who do not believe. _He again imputes blame to them, because, being destitute of _the Spirit, _they wickedly corrupt and debase his doctrine, and thus turn it to their ruin. For otherwise they might have objected: “You boast, indeed, that what you speak is quickening, but we experience nothing of that nature.” He therefore says, that by themselves it is prevented; for unbelief, as it is always proud, will never understand any thing in the words of Christ which it despises and disdains. Wherefore, if we wish to profit at all under this Teacher, let us bring minds well disposed to listen to him; for if the entrance to his doctrine be not opened up by humility and reverence, our understandings are harder than stones, and will not receive any part of sound doctrine. And therefore, when in the present day we see so few people in the world profiting by the Gospel,...

60-65 The human nature of Christ had not before been in heaven, but being God and man, that wondrous Person was truly said to have come down from heaven. The Messiah's kingdom was not of this world; and they were to understand by faith, what he had said of a spiritual living upon him, and his fulness. As without the soul of man the flesh is of no value, so without the quickening Spirit of God all forms of religion are dead and worthless. He who made this provision for our souls, alone can teach us these things, and draw us unto Christ, that we may live by faith in him. Let us apply to Christ, thankful that it is declared that every one who is willing to come unto him shall be made welcome....

Verse 64. _BUT THERE ARE SOME OF YOU THAT BELIEVE NOT._] This is addressed to Judas, and to those disciples who left him: John 6:66. _AND WHO SHOULD BETRAY HIM_] Or, _who would deliver him up_. Because he knew all things; he knew from the _first_, from Judas's call to the apostleship, and from eternity, (if the reader pleases,) who it was who _would_ (not _should_) deliver him up into the hands of the Jews. _Should_, in the apprehension of most, implies _necessity_ and _compulsion; would_ implies that he was under the influence of his _own free will_, without necessity or constraint. The former takes away his guilt: for what a man is _irresistibly_ compelled to do, by the supreme authority of God, he cannot avoid; and therefore to him no blame can attach: but Judas having acted through his _own_ _free will_, a

JESUS KNEW FROM THE BEGINNING ... - As this implied a knowledge of the heart, and of the secret principles and motives of men, it shows that he must have been omniscient....

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 _"_sign_" _of power_. Chronological difficulties beset our treatment of this miraculous narrative with its varied consequences and results. Many curious and even violent measures have been resorted to with a view to solve them. Some have supposed that John 5:1. and 6. have been inverted in order, and that thus the presence of our Lord in Galilee, mentioned in...

BUT THERE ARE SOME OF YOU THAT BELIEVE NOT,.... Notwithstanding the ministry they sat under, and the words they heard; for though they professed to believe in Jesus, as the Messiah, yet they did not truly believe in him; their faith was not a living faith, or of a spiritual kind, but a mere historical and temporary one, and was feigned and hypocritical: FOR JESUS KNEW FROM THE BEGINNING; of his ministry, and of their profession of him, being God omniscient, and the searcher of hearts: WHO THEY WERE THAT BELIEVED NOT; i.e. in him, as the Arabic version reads: notwithstanding their following him, and professing to believe in him, and the great outward respect and esteem they showed to him, he could see through all those masks they put on, and knew they had no true faith of him in them; and the same knowledge he has of every professor of his name: he knows whether their faith is of the ri...

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, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?_ They did know his mother; but they made a mistake, which may have seemed a very slight one to them, when they said that they knew his father. Yet that is how nearly all great errors spring from some slight and apparently trivial addition to the truth. They did know Mary, but they did not know that Jehovah was the Father of the Christ. John 6:43. Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not a

JOHN 6:64 ti,nej eivsi.n oi` mh. pisteu,ontej kai, {B} The omission of these words from several witnesses (î66* 1344* ite syrc, s) is no doubt the result of oversight in transcription, occasioned perhaps by homoeoarcton (ti,nej … ti,j). The omission of mh, by a Xcomm _al_ is less easy to account for, but it may be the result of a desire to indicate that Jesus knew his own, rather than those who were not his own. The parallelism, however, with the first part of the verse seems to require the presence of the negative....

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 Bread of Life. The Food of the Believer. (John 6:22 .) 5. The Falling Away of Disciples. (John 6:60) 6. Peter's Confession. (John 6:67 .) The events which are recorded in this chapter happened at the Sea of Galilee, the sea of Tiberias. John exclusively uses t