Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Therefore said I, etc.—that is, "That was why I spoke to you of the necessity of divine teaching which some of you are strangers to."
except it were given him—plainly showing that by the Father's "drawing" (John 6:44) was meant an internal and efficacious operation, for in recalling the statement here He says, it must be "given to a man to come" to Christ.
Many . . . of his disciples—His pretty constant followers, though an outer circle of them.
hard saying—not merely harsh, but insufferable, as the word often means in the Old Testament.
who can hear—submit to listen to it.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing John 6:65:
Jeremiah 31:18
Philippians 2:13
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