The Words of Eternal Life (JHN 6:60-71)

[6:60] Many of his followers heard this and said, “This teaching is too hard. Who can listen to it?”

[6:61] Without being told, Jesus knew that they were grumbling about this, so he said to them, “Does this make you want to give up?

[6:62] Suppose, then, that you should see the Son of Man go back up to the place where he was before?

[6:63] What gives life is God's Spirit; human power is of no use at all. The words I have spoken to you bring God's life-giving Spirit.

[6:64] Yet some of you do not believe.” (Jesus knew from the very beginning who were the ones that would not believe and which one would betray him.)

[6:65] And he added, “This is the very reason I told you that no people can come to me unless the Father makes it possible for them to do so.”

[6:66] Because of this, many of Jesus' followers turned back and would not go with him any more.

[6:67] So he asked the twelve disciples, “And you—would you also like to leave?”

[6:68] Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words that give eternal life.

[6:69] And now we believe and know that you are the Holy One who has come from God.”

[6:70] Jesus replied, “I chose the twelve of you, didn't I? Yet one of you is a devil!”

[6:71] He was talking about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. For Judas, even though he was one of the twelve disciples, was going to betray him.