‘Jesus answered and said to them, “Do not murmur among yourselves. No man can come to me except my Father who has sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
Jesus now tried vainly to give them a chance. He reiterated what He had said to the people. He gently rebuked them for their attitude and contradicted their claim to know His father. He pointed out that it was God Who was His own Father (‘My Father'), the One Who is in Heaven. (There is possibly here a hint of the virgin birth. He has no human father. God is His father). Those whom His Father draws will come to Him and partake of the bread of life which has come down from Heaven, and this will mean that they will not die the final death but will live for ever. Those who refuse to respond merely indicate that His Father has not chosen them. They demonstrate that they have not been ‘drawn' by the Father.
The verb to ‘draw' is a powerful one. In John 21:6; John 21:11 the large fish are ‘drawn in', unable to prevent it,. Paul and Silas are ‘dragged into' the forum (Acts 16:19). Paul is ‘dragged out' of the Temple (Acts 21:30). There is thus to it the sense of a necessary compulsion. God is at work calling men to Himself. Later it is Jesus Who will draw all men to Himself (John 12:32).