John 6:70
He said to them: “Did I myself not choose you twelve? Yet one of you is a devil.”
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?
In Context
69Further, we have come to believe and to know that you are the Christ, the Son of the Living God!”
Cross References
Matthew 10:1So summoning His twelve disciples He gave them authority over unclean spirits so as to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every illness.
John 6:64But there are some among you who do not believe.” (For Jesus knew from the start who they were who did not believe, and who was betraying Him.)
John 13:2And after supper (the devil already having put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray Him),
John 13:21Having said these things, Jesus was distressed in His spirit and testified saying, “Most assuredly I say to you, one of you will betray me!”
John 15:16It was not you who chose me but I who chose you, and I appointed you so that you should go and produce fruit, and that your fruit should endure, so that whatever you may ask the Father in my name He may give you.
John 17:12While I was with them in the world I kept them in Your name. I protected those whom You gave me, and not one of them was lost except the son of perdition, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
Matthew Henry on John 6:61-71
Christ's Discourse with His Disciples; The Effect of Christ's Discourse; The Character of Judas. 60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it? 61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you? 62 What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? 63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.… Read the whole commentary →