64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew[254] from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him. [254] Rom. 8:29; 2 Tim. 2:19. 65 And he said, Therefore said I[255] unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father. [255] verses 44, 45. =64, 65. But there are some among you who have not faith.= Such could not receive the teaching of Christ, for it is true in spiritual as in physical gifts, according to one’s faith, so is Christ’s blessing (Matt. 9:29).--=For Jesus knew from the beginning=, etc. Compare this distinct statement of Christ’s foreknowledge with Christ’s own statement of the limitations of his knowledge in Mark 13:32. The contrast illustrates one of the inexplicable mysteries of Christ’s nature, whose knowledge transcended that of man, yet in his earthly condition was less than that of omniscience. To the question, Why, if he foreknew the betrayal of Judas, did he ordain him as an apostle? there is no satisfactory answer. The problem of divine foreknowledge and human free-will, of that divine law the inflexibility of which science has in these later days so strikingly demonstrated, and that freedom of moral action to which universal consciousness testifies, is one which transcends the limits of the human intellect.--=Therefore said I unto you that no one can come unto me except it were given unto him of my Father.= Judas and the withdrawing disciples had, in a sense, come unto him; they had followed him, accepted him as their Master, and had given him for a time their allegiance. Yet they had not really come to him, for no one truly comes except he is drawn by a divine influence. _Therefore_ connects the declaration of ver. 44 with the fact here stated that some of the disciples were without true faith. The practical warning to us here is this, that we have need to examine ourselves that we may know whether our coming to Christ has been merely that of a natural inclination or that of obedience to the impulse of the Spirit of God. 66 From that _time_ many of his disciples went back,[256] and walked no more with him. [256] Zeph. 1:6; Luke 9:62; Heb. 10:38. 67 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?