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All that which the Father gives me will come to me. Him who comes to me I will in no way throw out.
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God's Sovereign Gift
Commentators emphasize that salvation begins with God's initiative. Jesus states that all who come to Him are a gift from the Father. This is not a random occurrence but a divine act. Scholars like Calvin and Gill see this as God's sovereign election, which ensures that Christ's mission will succeed and His people will certainly be drawn to Him.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
All. The original word is in the neuter gender, but it is used, undoubtedly, for the masculine, or perhaps refers to his people considered…
All that (παν ο). Collective use of the neuter singular, classic idiom, seen also in 6:39; 17:2,24; 1 John 5:4. Perhap…
19th Century
Anglican
All that the Father giveth me.—There is something startling in this power of the human will to reject the fullest evidenc…
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Baptist
All that the Father giveth me shall come to me and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven, not to do min…
The Father has put everything under Jesus’ control (cf. 5:19–27), including the people who are his. The paradox latent in this text has puzzled man…
16th Century
Protestant
All that the Father giveth me. So that their unbelief may not detract anything from His doctrine, He says that the cause of such great obs…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
All that the Father giveth me The "all" design not the apostles only, who were given to Christ as such; for these di…
The discovery of their guilt, danger, and remedy, by the teaching of the Holy Spirit, makes people willing and glad to come, and to give up everyth…
13th Century
Catholic
Having told us the question the Jews had asked Christ, the Evangelist now gives his answer.
First, Christ tells us of the origin o…
