And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given [or, 'have been given' ee (G2228 ) dedomenon (G1325 )] unto him of my Father: - q.d., 'That was why I spoke to you of the necessity of divine teaching, which some of you are strangers to.' This last expression - "except it have been given him of my Father" - plainly shows that by the Father's "drawing" (John 6:44,) was meant an internal and efficacious operation; because in recalling the statement here, He says it must be "given to a man to come" to Christ.