Ἰωάννην 6:40

Greek Modern Translation

Και τουτο ειναι το θελημα του πεμψαντος με, πας οστις βλεπει τον Υιον και πιστευει εις αυτον να εχη ζωην αιωνιον, και εγω θελω αναστησει αυτον εν τη εσχατη ημερα.

Parallel Translations

Byzantine/Majority Text
τουτο δε εστιν το θελημα του πεμψαντος με ινα πας ο θεωρων τον υιον και πιστευων εις αυτον εχη ζωην αιωνιον και αναστησω αυτον εγω τη εσχατη ημερα

SBL Greek New Testament (2010)
τοῦτο ⸀γάρ ἐστιν τὸ θέλημα τοῦ ⸂πατρός μου⸃ ἵνα πᾶς ὁ θεωρῶν τὸν υἱὸν καὶ πιστεύων εἰς αὐτὸν ἔχῃ ζωὴν αἰώνιον, καὶ ἀναστήσω αὐτὸν ⸀ἐγὼ τῇ ἐσχάτῃ ἡμέρᾳ.

Tischendorf 8th Edition
τοῦτο γάρ ἐστιν τὸ θέλημα τοῦ πατρός μου, ἵνα πᾶς ὁ θεωρῶν τὸν υἱὸν καὶ πιστεύων εἰς αὐτὸν ἔχῃ ζωὴν αἰώνιον καὶ ἀναστήσω αὐτὸν ἐγὼ ἐν τῇ ἐσχάτῃ ἡμέρᾳ.

Textus Receptus (1550/1894)
τουτο δε εστιν το θελημα του πεμψαντος με ινα πας ο θεωρων τον υιον και πιστευων εις αυτον εχη ζωην αιωνιον και αναστησω αυτον εγω τη εσχατη ημερα

Westcott/Hort UBS4 (1881)
τουτο γαρ εστιν το θελημα του πατρος μου ινα πας ο θεωρων τον υιον και πιστευων εις αυτον εχη ζωην αιωνιον και αναστησω αυτον εγω εγω εγω εγω τη εσχατη ημερα

Bible Verse Review
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seeth: John 6:36, John 6:37, John 1:14, John 4:14, John 8:56, Isaiah 45:21, Isaiah 45:22, Isaiah 52:10, Isaiah 53:2, Luke 2:30, 2 Corinthians 4:6, Hebrews 11:1, Hebrews 11:27, 1 Peter 1:8, 1 John 1:1-3

and believeth: John 6:27, John 6:35, John 6:54, John 3:15-18, John 3:36, John 5:24, John 10:28, John 12:50, John 17:2, Mark 16:16, Romans 5:21, Romans 6:23, 1 John 2:25, 1 John 5:11-13, Jude 1:21

I will: John 11:25

Reciprocal: Numbers 21:9 - he lived Psalms 37:28 - forsaketh Isaiah 45:17 - an everlasting Jeremiah 23:4 - neither Matthew 6:10 - Thy will Matthew 7:21 - that Matthew 12:50 - do Matthew 18:14 - it is Mark 10:17 - eternal John 3:17 - but John 3:18 - is not John 5:28 - for John 5:40 - that John 6:39 - this John 6:44 - and I John 6:47 - He that John 6:68 - thou hast John 12:21 - we would John 14:1 - ye John 14:4 - and the John 17:12 - I kept John 20:31 - believing Acts 16:31 - Believe Acts 27:44 - that Romans 3:28 - General Romans 4:11 - father Romans 5:10 - we shall Romans 8:30 - he justified 1 Corinthians 6:14 - by 1 Corinthians 15:45 - a quickening Galatians 3:22 - to Ephesians 2:8 - through Colossians 3:3 - your Colossians 3:4 - ye 1 Timothy 1:16 - believe 2 Timothy 1:1 - the promise 2 Timothy 1:12 - keep Hebrews 10:39 - but Hebrews 12:2 - Looking

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And this is the will of him that sent me,.... The Vulgate Latin adds, "of my Father"; and all the Oriental versions read only, "and this is the will of my Father"; this is his declared, his revealed will in the Gospel, which the sons of men are made acquainted with, as the other was his secret will, which was only known to the Son till he discovered it.

That everyone which seeth the Son, and believeth on him; who so sees him as to believe in him; for this is not to be understood of a corporeal sight of Christ, or of a mere speculative knowledge of him, or historical faith in him; for it is not so to see him, as merely to believe what he is, the Son of God, the Messiah and Saviour of the world, or what he says, but to trust in him for righteousness, life, and happiness. Men are by nature blind, their eyes are shut to all that is spiritually good; it is the Spirit of God that opens blind eyes, and illuminates the understanding: and in his light men see not only themselves, their sin, and want of righteousness, and their lost state and condition, but Christ, and a beauty, glory, and excellency in him, ability and willingness to save, a suitableness in him for them, and a fulness of all grace; they see righteousness, peace, pardon, cleansing, wisdom, strength, grace, life, and salvation, and go out of themselves to him for all: and such a sight, though it may be but glimmering, is saving, and is self-abasing, soul rejoicing, surprising, and transforming; is attended with certainty, reality, and evidence, and is a foretaste of glory; for it is the will of God, and not man, of a gracious Father, of an unchangeable and eternal being, whose will cannot be resisted, and made void, that such

may have everlasting life; which will be a life of glory, and will consist in possessing glory both in soul and body; in beholding glory, the glory of one another, the glory of angels, the glory of divine truths, and mysterious providences, the glory of the divine perfections, and of the Lord Jesus Christ; and it will be a life of perfection, of perfect knowledge, holiness, obedience, love, peace, and joy; a life free from all the miseries and inconveniences of this, both in a natural and spiritual sense; a life of pleasure, and which will last for ever: to which Christ adds,

and I will raise him up at the last day; Christ will be the efficient cause, as well as he is the exemplar, the earnest, and first fruits of the resurrection of the dead; he will indeed raise all the dead by his power, but the saints particularly, by virtue of union to him, as the members of his body, and in the first place; and the very same shall rise, and with the same numerical body, that were given to him, and believe in him: and this will be at the last of the last days, at the end of all things; and is mentioned to show, that length of time will not hinder the resurrection of the dead, and in opposition to a Jewish notion, that the resurrection of the dead would be at the Messiah's coming: it will be at his second coming, but was not to be at his first; there was indeed then a resurrection of some particular persons, but not a general one of all the saints: that the Jews expect the resurrection of the dead when the Messiah comes, appears from their Targums, Talmuds, and other writers; so the Targumist on Hosea 14:8:

"They shall be gathered from their captivity, they shall sit under the shadow of their Messiah, "and the dead shall live", and good shall be multiplied in the land.''

And in the Talmud p it is said,

"the holy blessed God will quicken the righteous, and they shall not return to their dust.''

The gloss upon it is,

"the holy blessed God will quicken them "in the days of" the Messiah.''

And so the land of the living is said to be,

"the land, whose dead live first in the days of the Messiah q.''

And hence R. Jeremiah desired to he buried with his clothes and shoes on, and staff in his hand, that when the Messiah came, he might be ready r with which agree others of the more modern writers; so Kimchi on Isaiah 66:5.

"They shall live at the resurrection of the dead, in the days of the Messiah.''

And the same writer on Jeremiah 23:20 observes it is said,

""ye" shall consider, and not "they" shall consider; which intimates the "resurrection of the dead in the days of the Messiah".''

And says Aben Ezra on Daniel 12:2:

"The righteous which die in captivity shall live, when the Redeemer comes;''

though some of their writers differ in this point, and will not allow the days of the Messiah, and the resurrection of the dead, to be one and the same s.

p T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 92. 1. q T. Hieros. Kilaim, fol. 32. 3. r T. Hieros. Kilaim, foi. 32. 3. col. 2. s Zohar in Gen. fol. 82. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him - It was not sufficient to see him and hear him, but it was necessary, also, to believe on him. Many of the Jews had seen him, but few believed on him. Jesus had said in the previous verse that all that the Father had given him should be saved. But he never left a doctrine so that men must misunderstand it. Lest it should be supposed that if a man was given to him this was all that was needful, and lest anyone should say, “If I am to be saved I shall be, and my efforts will be useless,” he states here that it is necessary that a man should believe on him. This would be the evidence that he was given to God, and this would be evidence conclusive that he would be saved. If this explanation of the Saviour had always been attended to, the doctrine of election would not have been abused as it has been. Sinners would not sit down in unconcern, saying that if they are given to Christ all will be well. They would have arisen like the prodigal, and would have gone to God; and, having believed on the Saviour, they would then have had evidence that they were given to him - the evidence resulting from an humble, penitent, believing heart - and then they might rejoice in the assurance that Jesus would lose none that were given to him, but would raise it up at the last day. All the doctrines of Jesus, as he preached them, are safe, and pure, and consistent; as men preach them, they are, unhappily, often inconsistent and open to objection, and are either fitted to produce despair on the one hand, or presumptuous self-confidence on the ether. Jesus teaches men to strive to enter heaven, as if they could do the work themselves; and yet to depend on the help of God, and give the glory to him, as if he had done it all.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 40. This is the will of him that sent me — Lest they should take a wrong meaning out of his words, as many have done since, he tells them that, far from any person being excluded from his mercy, it was the will of God that every one who saw him might believe and be saved. The power, without which they could not believe, he freely gave them; but the use of that power was their own. God gives the grace of repentance and faith to every man; but he neither repents nor believes for any man. Each must repent for his own sins, and believe in the Lord Jesus, through the grace given, or perish.