Joh 6:67-71 | RWP | e4.org | Would ye also go away? ( Μη κα υμεις θελετε υπαγειν; ). Jesus puts it with the negative answer ( μη ) expected. See where Jesus also uses μη in a question. Judas must have shown some sympathy with the disappointed and disappearing crowds. But he kept still. There was possibly restlessness on the part of the other apostles.

‏ John 6:67-71

Would ye also go away? ( Μη κα υμεις θελετε υπαγειν; ). Jesus puts it with the negative answer ( μη ) expected. See 21:5 where Jesus also uses μη in a question. Judas must have shown some sympathy with the disappointed and disappearing crowds. But he kept still. There was possibly restlessness on the part of the other apostles.

Lord, to whom shall we go? ( Κυριε, προς τινα απελευσομεθα; ). Peter is the spokesman as usual and his words mean that, if such a thought as desertion crossed their minds when the crowd left, they dismissed it instantly. They had made their choice. They accepted these very words of Jesus that had caused the defection as "the words of eternal life."

We have believed ( ημεις πεπιστευκαμεν ). Perfect active indicative of πιστευω, "We have come to believe and still believe" (verse 29).

And know ( κα εγνωκαμεν ). Same tense of γινωσκω, "We have come to know and still know."

Thou art the Holy One of God ( συ ε ο αγιος του θεου ). Bernard follows those who believe that this is John's report of the same confession given by the Synoptics (Mr 8:27f.; Mt 16:13-20; Lu 9:18f.), an utterly unjustifiable conclusion. The details are wholly different. Here in the synagogue in Capernaum, there on Mt. Hermon near Caesarea Philippi. What earthly difficulty is there in supposing that Peter could make a noble confession twice? That is to my mind a wooden conception of the apostles in their growing apprehension of Christ.

And one of you is a devil ( κα εξ υμων εις διαβολος εστιν ). Jesus does not say that Judas was a devil when he chose him, but that he is one now. In 13:2, 27 John speaks of the devil entering Judas. How soon the plan to betray Jesus first entered the heart of Judas we do not know (12:4). One wonders if the words of Jesus here did not cut Judas to the quick.

Of Simon Iscariot ( Σιμωνος Ισκαριωτου ). So his father was named Iscariot also, a man of Kerioth (possibly in Judah, Jos 15:25, possibly in Moab, Jer 48:24), not in Galilee. Judas was the only one of the twelve not a Galilean. The rest of the verse is like 12:4.

One of the twelve ( εις εκ των δωδεκα ). The eternal horror of the thing.