Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadJohn Bengel Commentary - John 6:40 - 6:40
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
Joh 6:40. Τοῦτο γάρ-Πατρός, for this-of the Father) See notes on Joh 6:37; Joh 6:39.-ὁ θεωρῶν καὶ πιστεύων, who seeth and believeth) The Jews were then seeing, but not believing, Joh 6:36, “Ye also have seen Me, and believe not.” Those who beheld Christ had a great opportunity for believing; and those of them who believed had a pre-eminent degree of blessedness. Mat 13:16, “Blessed are your eyes, for they see.”-ζωὴν αἰώνιον, everlasting life) even before the last day, of which the mention here follows immediately subsequent: as also at Joh 6:54, “hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.” Human reason transposes the order of these two.-ἀναστήσω, I will raise up again) The Future, as at Joh 6:44, and ch. Joh 15:8, “bear much fruit: so shall ye be My disciples.”-ἐγώ, I) This pronoun, which was not employed at Joh 6:39, is now employed: there the preceding verb is also in the first person [that of all-I should lose nothing]; but here, in the third person [that every one which-believeth-may have everlasting life], as Joh 6:44; Joh 6:54.