Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - John 6:70-71
John 6:70-71. Jesus answered them And, yet even ye have not all acted, nor will you act, suitably to this knowledge and faith. For, have I not chosen, or elected, you twelve To the honour and happiness of a peculiar intimacy with me, and to a station of the most distinguished eminence and importance in my church? And yet one of you, as I well know, is a devil Is now influenced by one, and will become my accuser and betrayer. As the word διαβολος , rendered devil, sometimes... read more
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - John 6:71
He spake of Judas ... - There is no evidence that Jesus designated Judas so that the disciples then understood that it was he. It does not appear that the apostles even suspected Judas, as they continued to treat him afterward with the same confidence, for he carried the bag, or the purse containing their little property John 12:6; John 13:29; and at the table, when Jesus said that one of them would betray him, the rest did not suspect Judas until Jesus pointed him out particularly, John 13:26.... read more