John 6:67
So he said to us twelve apostles, “You do not want to leave me also, do you?”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?
In Context
66From that time, many of his disciples left him and no longer went with him.
Cross References
Ruth 1:11But Naomi said, “No, my daughters, return home. ◄It will not do any good for you to come with me!/What good will it do for you to come with me?► [RHQ] Do you think I will get married again and have more sons who could become your husbands?
Matthew 10:2Here is a list of us twelve disciples whom he called apostles ( which means ‘messengers’): Simon, to whom he gave the new name Peter; Andrew, Peter’s younger brother; James, the son of Zebedee; John, the younger brother of James;
John 6:70Then Jesus replied to us, “ You are saying that as though all you twelve men whom I have chosen [RHQ] believe that. But one of you is under the control of Satan!”
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 →