^6:40For this is the will of my Father—for everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him to have eternal life, and I will raise him up⁶¹ at the last day.”⁶²

^6:41Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus⁶³ began complaining about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven,” ^6:42and they said, “Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” ^6:43Jesus replied,⁶⁴ “Do not complain about me to one another.⁶⁵^6:44No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him,⁶⁶ and I will raise him up at the last day. ^6:45It is written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’⁶⁷ Everyone who hears and learns from the Father⁶⁸ comes to me. ^6:46(Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God—he⁶⁹ has seen the Father.)⁷⁰^6:47I tell you the solemn truth,⁷¹ the one who believes⁷² has eternal life.⁷³^6:48I am the bread of life.⁷⁴^6:49Your ancestors⁷⁵ ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. ^6:50This⁷⁶ is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person⁷⁷ may eat from it and not die.

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John 6:44: No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

Footnotes

61 Or “resurrect him,” or “make him live again.”
62 Notice that here the result (having eternal life and being raised up at the last day) is produced by looking on the Son and believing in him. Compare John 6:54 where the same result is produced by eating Jesus’ flesh and drinking his blood. This suggests that the phrase in 6:54 (eats my flesh and drinks my blood) is to be understood in terms of the phrase here (looks on the Son and believes in him).
63 Grk “Then the Jews.” In NT usage the term Ἰουδαῖοι (Ioudaioi) may refer to the entire Jewish people, the residents of Jerusalem and surrounding territory, the authorities in Jerusalem, or merely those who were hostile to Jesus. (For further information see R. G. Bratcher, “ ‘The Jews’ in the Gospel of John,” 26 [1975]: 401–9.) Here the translation restricts the phrase to those Jews who were hostile to Jesus (cf. Ἰουδαῖος 2.e.β), since the “crowd” mentioned in 6:22–24 was almost all Jewish (as suggested by their addressing Jesus as “Rabbi” (6:25). Likewise, the designation “Judeans” does not fit here because the location is Galilee rather than Judea.
64 Grk “answered and said to them.”
65 Or “Do not grumble among yourselves.” The words “about me” are supplied to clarify the translation “complain to one another” (otherwise the Jewish opponents could be understood to be complaining about one another, rather than complaining to one another about Jesus).
66 Or “attracts him,” or “pulls him.” The word is used of pulling or dragging, often by force. It is even used once of magnetic attraction (A. Oepke, 2:503). The Father who sent me draws him. The author never specifically explains what this “drawing” consists of. It is evidently some kind of attraction; whether it is binding and irresistible or not is not mentioned. But there does seem to be a parallel with 6:65, where Jesus says that no one is able to come to him unless the Father has allowed it. This apparently parallels the use of Isaiah by John to reflect the spiritual blindness of the Jewish leaders (see the quotations from Isaiah in John 9:41 and 12:39–40).
67 A quotation from Isa 54:13.
68 Or “listens to the Father and learns.”
69 Grk “this one.”
70 This is best taken as a parenthetical note by the author. Although some would attribute these words to Jesus himself, the switch from first person in Jesus’ preceding and following remarks to third person in v. 46 suggests that the author has added a clarifying comment here.
71 Grk “Truly, truly, I say to you.”
72 Most witnesses (A C2 D Ψ f1, 13 33 𝔐 lat and other versions) have “in me” (εἰς ἐμέ, eis eme) here, while the Sinaitic and Curetonian versions read “in God.” These clarifying readings are predictable variants, being motivated by the scribal tendency toward greater explicitness. That the earliest and best witnesses (𝔓66, 75vid א B C* L T W Θ 892 ) lack any object is solid testimony to the shorter text’s authenticity.
73 Compare John 6:40.
74 That is, “the bread that produces (eternal) life.”
75 Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”
76 Or “Here.”
77 Grk “someone” (τις, tis).