The Words of Eternal Life

60 After hearing this, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard saying; who can accept it?” 61 But Jesus, aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, “Does this offend you? 62 Then what if you see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? 63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is of no benefit. The words that I [fn]speak to you are spirit and life. 64 But there are some among you who do not believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning which of them did not believe and who it was that would betray him.) 65 Then he said, “That is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it has been granted to him by [fn]my Father.”

66 At that point many of his disciples went back and no longer walked with him. 67 So Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you also want to go away?” 68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? Yoʋ have the words of eternal life. 69 And we have come to believe and to know that yoʋ are the [fn]Christ, the Son of [fn]the living God.” 70 Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve? And yet one of you is a devil.” 71 (Now he was speaking about [fn]Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, [fn]who was one of the twelve and would later betray him.)