John 6:70

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - John 6:70

Have not I chosen you twelve? - There is much emphasis in these words. Have not I - I, the Saviour, the Messiah, chosen you in mercy and in love, and therefore it will be a greater sin to betray me? Chosen. Chosen to the apostolic office; conferred on you marks of special favor, and treason is therefore the greater sin. You twelve. So small a number. Out of such a multitude as follow for the loaves and fishes, it is to be expected there should be apostates; but when the number is so small,... read more

Joseph Benson

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

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - John 6:60-71

68. Words of eternal life (John 6:60-71)Many of the people who followed Jesus found his teaching about the bread of life hard to understand. Jesus told them that if they had difficulty believing this, they would be positively amazed when they saw him going bodily back to heaven. Their difficulties arose because they were thinking only of physical flesh and blood, and failed to see the spiritual truths they illustrated. They still did not understand how eternal life could result from Jesus’... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - John 6:70

Have I not chosen = Did I not choose. Compare 13. 14, 15, 16, 19. Luke 6:13 . twelve = the twelve. See App-141 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - John 6:70

Jesus answered them, Did not I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?For more on the subject of foreknowledge, see under John 6:64, also in my Commentary on Romans, p. 322.One of you is a devil ... does not mean that Judas had been a devil from the beginning, or that he was a devil when Jesus selected him as an apostle. Judas "by transgression fell"( Acts 1:25); and it is impossible for one to fall from an eminence he does not have. Some considerable time had passed since Judas was... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - John 6:70

John 6:70. Jesus answered—have not I chosen you twelve, &c.?— "The opinion of my character and mission, which thou, O Peter, hast expressed in thine own name, and in the name of thy brethren, is just: however, I know, that you are not all agreed in this confession; for one of you is a devil, a malicious informer, and so perfectly bad a man, that he will betray me. It is true, I made choice of this very person equally with the rest, to be my apostle and companion; but from what I now tell... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - John 6:70

70. Have not I chosen . . . and one of you is a devil:—"Well said, Simon-Barjonas, but that 'we' embraces not so wide a circle as in the simplicity of thine heart thou thinkest; for though I have chosen you but twelve, one even of these is a 'devil'" (the temple, the tool of that wicked one). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - John 6:66-71

The response of the Twelve 6:66-71 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - John 6:70

It might appear that the Twelve had chosen Jesus as their rabbi, but really the choice had been His (Mark 3:13-19; Luke 6:12-16). He had chosen them and they had then believed on Him even as the Father chose the elect who then believed on Jesus. Reflecting His knowledge of those who believed in Him and those who did not (John 6:64), Jesus revealed that even among the Twelve there was one unbeliever. Jesus had chosen him to be one of the Twelve, but God had not chosen Him for salvation.The Greek... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - John 6:1-71

The Bread of LifeJohn 6:1 to John 7:1. Feeding the five thousand. Walking upon the sea. Discourse upon the bread of life. Defection of many disciples. The Apostles stand firm.Returning from Jerusalem, our Lord met the Apostles somewhere on the W. of the lake (perhaps at Capernaum), and heard their report of their mission (Luke 9:10). He then spent about a fortnight preaching and healing the sick (John 6:2), and afterwards, seeking retirement, sailed with them to a desert place on the NE. coast... read more

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