“In fact, this is the will of the one who sent me, that everything that he has given to me I may not lose any of it, but I will raise it on the last day. Because this is the will of my Father, that everyone perceiving the Son and trusting into him, may have eternal life, and I myself will raise him up on the last day.”
Again, two things here. First, the “will of the one who sent [him]” is for a no loss to Jesus situation. The Father does not will that the Son of Man may lose anything at all out of his (the Father’s) “everything”, given by the Father to Jesus. I guess that includes you and me. No losses is the plan.
Second, this man Jesus commits to the same principle with regard to every person given to him by the Father; “I myself will raise up … everyone perceiving the Son and trusting into him.”
So the Jews were murmuring about him, because he said, “I myself am the bread that came down from heaven.” They said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
As always, folk find a way not to follow Jesus. “We know his dad and mum”, they said, “how can he be “from heaven”?”.
Jesus answered them, “Do not murmur among yourselves. No one can come to me unless the Father, the sender of me, draws him. And I myself will raise him up on the last day. It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ The one having heard from the Father, and having learned, comes to me— not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God; he has seen the Father.”
Jesus sets out the reasons why they don’t trust in him. They’ve not been drawn to him by his Father. They have neither heard nor learnt.
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