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).

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

“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day.

For no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them to me, and at the last day I will raise them up.

No one is able to come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day.

No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

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