John 6:67

Modern

So Jesus asked the Twelve, “Do you want to leave too?”

Traditional

Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?

Literal

Therefore Jesus said to the Twelve, “Do you also want to go away?”

Latin

Dixit ergo Jesus ad duodecim: Numquid et vos vultis abire?

Greek

English

So Jesus asked the Twelve, “Do you want to leave too?”

Each story in this chapter uses the setting of the Feast of the Passover (6:4) to communicate a deeper meaning.

Theme notes and profiles

Luke 14:25–33
Now large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and He turned and said to them,
John 6:70
Jesus answered them, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!”
Ruth 1:11–18
But Naomi replied, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb to become your husbands?
Joshua 24:15–22
But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”
2 Samuel 15:19–20
Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why should you also go with us? Go back and stay with the new king, since you are both a foreigner and an exile from your homeland.

Jesus: The Son of God and Savior of the world