John 6:68
Peter said, “No, sir. Who would we go to? Your words will make us live with God for ever. Nobody else has a message like that.
Plain English Version
In The King James Version
Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
In Context
67Then Jesus asked his 12 special workers, “Do you want to stop following me too?”
69We believe your message, and we know that you are God’s special man.”
Cross References
John 5:39I know that you read God’s book all the time, and you think that if you do that you will find out how to live with God for ever. I want you to know that those words in God’s book, they tell you all about me.
John 6:63It is God’s spirit that makes people alive. People can’t do that by themselves. And those words that I said to you now, they are from God’s spirit, and if people believe those words, they will live with God for ever.
Acts 4:12But Jesus is the only one that can save people. God didn’t send anyone else to save us. Jesus is the only one in the world that has power to save people.”
Acts 7:38All our grand-fathers were with Moses in the desert country. And God sent an angel messenger to Moses, at the big hill called Sinai, to tell him the good message that helps people live with God. And then Moses told our grand-fathers that same message.
1 John 5:11This is the story that God told us. He told us that he sent Jesus to give us new life, so that we can live for ever with God.
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 →