John 6:61-71 ▼

61 And Jesus having known in Himself that His disciples are murmuring about this, said to them, “Does this stumble you?

62 If then you may behold the Son of Man going up where He was before?

63 It is the Spirit that is giving life; the flesh does not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;

64 but there are certain of you who do not believe”; for Jesus had known from the beginning who they are who are not believing, and who is he who will deliver Him up,

65 and He said, “Because of this I have said to you, No one is able to come to Me if it may not have been given him from My Father.”

66 From this [time] many of His disciples went away backward, and were no longer walking with Him,

67 Jesus, therefore, said to the Twelve, “Do you also wish to go away?”

68 Simon Peter, therefore, answered Him, “Lord, to whom will we go? You have sayings of continuous life;

69 and we have believed, and we have known, that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

70 Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you—the Twelve? And of you—one is a devil.”

71 And He spoke of Judas, [son] of Simon Iscariot, for he was about to deliver Him up, being one of the Twelve.