Quotes & Notes on:     John 6:40   

• John Wesley's Notes:
  Here is the sum of the three foregoing verses.
  
  This is the will of him that sent me-This is the whole of what I have said: this is the eternal, unchangeable will of God. Every one who truly believeth, shall have everlasting life.
  
  Every one that seeth and believeth-The Jews saw, and yet believed not.
  
  And I will raise him up-As this is the will of him that sent me, I will perform it effectually.
   

• The Fourfold Gospel:

    For this is the will of my Father, that every one that beholdeth the Son, and believeth on him, should have eternal life. It was the purpose of God the Father to offer to the sons of men an eternal life through the life-giving power of Jesus Christ. The power which was to work in men a fitness for this exalted honor was a belief in the Son. How could signs and wonders be wrought contrary to the Father's will? They ought to have believed for the signs and wonders he had already wrought, instead of pretending that he had wrought none that were conclusive of his claims.
   

• Treasury of Scripture Knowledge:

  * seeth. Joh 6:36; 1:14; 4:14; 8:56; Isa 45:21; 52:10; 53:2; Lu 2:30; 2Co 4:6 Heb 11:1,27; 1Pe 1:8; 1Jo 1:1-3
  * and believeth. Joh 6:27,35; 3:15-18; 5:24; 10:28; 12:50; 17:2; Mr 16:16; Ro 5:21 Ro 6:23; 1Jo 2:25; 5:11-13; Jude 1:21
  * I will. Joh 11:25
   

• Robertson's Word Pictures:
  Should have eternal life (echêi zôên aiônion). Present active subjunctive with hina, "that he may keep on having eternal life" as in Joh 3:15,36. Beholdeth (theôrôn). With the eye of faith as in Joh 12:45. And I will raise him up (kai anastêsô). Future active indicative (volitive future, promise) as in Joh 6:54.
   

• William Burkitt's Notes:

  (No comment on this verse).
   

• Family Bible Notes:

   I will raise him up; to everlasting life. He would thus do the will and accomplish the object of the Father.
   

• 1599 Geneva Bible Notes:
  Seeing and believing are joined together: for there is another type of seeing which is general, which the demons have, for they see: but here he speaks about that type of seeing which properly belongs to the elect.
   

• People's New Testament Commentary:

  (No comment on this verse).
   

• Albert Barnes' Commentary:

  Everyone 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 other. 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.
   

• Jamieson-Faussett Brown:

  And this--in the second place.
  
  is the will of Him that sent Me, that every one which seeth the Son and believeth on Him--seeing the Son believeth on Him.
  
  may have everlasting life, and I will raise him up at the last day--This is the human side of the same thing as in the foregoing verse, and answering to "Him that cometh unto Me I will in no wise cast out"; that is, I have it expressly in charge that everyone that so "beholdeth" (so vieweth) the Son as to believe on Him shall have everlasting life; and, that none of Him be lost, "I will raise him up at the last day."
   

• Spurgeon Devotional Commentary:

  Some are very much taken up with the decrees of God; here is one which they will do well always to bear in mind--every believer has everlasting life. No secret decree can contradict this published ordinance of heaven.
   

• Adam Clarke's Commentary:

  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.

   

• Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary:

   (No comment on this verse).