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Joh 6:64. Ἀλλʼ εἰσίν, but there are) With yourselves rests the blame.-τινές, some) who also disturb the faith of others.-οὐ πιστεύουσιν, do not believe) and so therefore distort into a carnal sense what has been spoken in a spiritual sense.-ἐξ ἀρχῆς, from the beginning) The very time of this discourse is marked, although Jesus, even before that time, had always known what was about to be. This discourse was delivered a year before His passion; but the choice of the twelve apostles did not precede this discourse by a whole year. Therefore it was at that time a beginning.-τίνες, who in particular) out of the larger number of His disciples.-καὶ τίς, and who) out of the twelve disciples. Judas therefore was then already cherishing that unnatural feeling, from which subsequently his treachery took its rise. Even then he did not believe, and, along with many other disciples, took offence at the discourse of Jesus. The bad are soon bad; the good are soon good.[152] John has diligently marked the successive steps in the deadly wickedness of Judas, ch. Joh 12:4 [His covetous objection made to the pouring out of the ointment on the Lord by Mary]; Joh 13:2; Joh 13:27, “Satan entered into him;” Joh 14:22; and entertained an especial antipathy towards him.
[152] i.e. Good and evil soon develop themselves in their respective characters.-E. and T.