⁶¹Knowing that his followers were complaining about this, Jesus said, “Does this teaching bother you? ⁶²Then will it also bother you to see the Son of Man going back to the place where he came from? ⁶³It is the Spirit that gives life. The flesh doesn’t give life. The words I told you are spirit, and they give life. ⁶⁴But some of you don’t believe.” (Jesus knew from the beginning who did not believe and who would turn against him.) ⁶⁵Jesus said, “That is the reason I said, ‘If the Father does not bring a person to me, that one cannot come.’ ”

⁶⁶After Jesus said this, many of his followers left him and stopped following him.

⁶⁷Jesus asked the twelve followers, “Do you want to leave, too?”

⁶⁸Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, who would we go to? You have the words that give eternal life. ⁶⁹We believe and know that you are the Holy One from God.”

⁷⁰Then Jesus answered, “I chose all twelve of you, but one of you is a devil.”

⁷¹Jesus was talking about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. Judas was one of the twelve, but later he was going to turn against Jesus.

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John 6:68–69: Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”