God’s Word Interprets God’s Word

John 6:35-39, 44, 65

Jesus said to them, I am the Bread of life; the one coming to Me will not at all hunger, and the one believing into Me will never ever thirst.

But I said to you that you also have seen Me and did not believe.

All that the Father gives to Me shall come to Me, and the one coming to Me I will in no way cast out.

John 6:44

No one is able to come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

John 6:65

And He said, Because of this, I have told you that no one is able to come to Me except it is given to him from My Father.

Matthew 11:25-30

Answering at that time, Jesus said, I praise You, Father, Lord of Heaven and of Earth, because You hid these things from the sophisticated and cunning and revealed them to babes.

Yes, Father, for so it was pleasing before You.

All things were yielded up to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him .

Come to Me, all those laboring and being burdened, and I will give you rest.

Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, because I am meek and lowly in heart, “and you will find rest to your souls.” Jer. 6:16

For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.

John 17:9

I pray concerning them; I do not pray concerning the world, but for those whom You gave to Me, for they are Yours.

Comment 

Although in John 17:9 above, Jesus is praying for the disciples given to Him by the Father and not for the world, we can deduct Jesus would not exclude praying for All the Father gives to Him in John 6:37-39 John 17:20 that will believe into Him because they were also given by the Father to Jesus to be saved and raised up in the last day and it is the will of the Father that all given to Jesus will be saved and raised up in the last day and Jesus always does the will of the Father.

The Father gives to Jesus and The Son reveals the Father to those the Father gives.

After this giving and revealing, They come believing the Gospel that salvation is conditioned on Jesus Christ’s atoning shed blood and His imputed righteousness alone. 2 Corinthians 4:6

They will be burdened down like the Tax Collecter in Luke 18:13 understanding they have no righteousness of their own; looking to God for mercy who has drawn them to Jesus Christ.

Out of love for Jesus Christ, they will give the gospel to their neighbor; hoping God will give them repentance, a change of mind, understanding salvation is not conditioned on them to any degree; but Jesus Christ alone, and that God will work the willing and the doing in them; conforming them into the image of Jesus Christ from start to the finishing of His work upon His return when the corruptible body is resurrected into the incorruptible body; when all things will be made new.

Philippians 1:6,2:13, 2 Timothy 2:25, 1 Corinthians 15:51-58, 1 Peter 3:15, John 3:3,5,8, John 1:12-13, Isaiah 64:6, Ezekiel 36:26, Romans 4:3-8, Ephesians 1:4,11, Ephesians 2:8-10, Romans 9:11,15,18

Luke 16:20-31

And there was a certain rich (one); and dressed (in) a purple robe and fine linen, being merry,(living) luxuriously according to a day. ^KJ3)

²⁰And there was a certain poor one named Lazarus who had been laid at his porch, being plagued by sores, 

²¹ and longing to be filled from the crumbs that were falling from the table of the rich (one). But coming, even the dogs licked his sores. 

²²And it happened, the poor one died and was carried away by the angels into the bosom of Abraham. And the rich one also died and was buried. 

²³ And being in torments in Hell, lifting up his eyes, he sees Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosoms. 

²⁴ And calling he said, Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering in this flame. 

Comment– The rich man appears to be thirsting

²⁵ But Abraham said, Child, remember that you fully received your good things in your lifetime, and Lazarus likewise the bad things. But now he is comforted, and you are suffering. 

²⁶ And besides all these things, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that those desiring to pass from here to you are not able, nor can they pass from there to us. 

²⁷And he said, Then I beg you, father, that you send him to my father’s house; 

²⁸ (for I have five brothers, so that he may witness to them, that they not also come to this place of torment). 

²⁹ Abraham said to him, They have Moses and the Prophets, let them hear them. 

³⁰ But he said, No, father Abraham, but if one should go from the dead to them, they will repent. 

³¹ And he said to him, If they will not hear Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if one from the dead should rise.

Highlights and italics added for emphasis

Literal translation 1993 Jay P Green or KJ3 Jay P. Green when noted 2006-2010