We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
Verse 69. We are sure, &c. See a similar confession of Peter in , and . Peter says we are sure, in the name of the whole of the apostles. Jesus immediately cautions him, as he did on other occasions, not to be too confident, for one of them actually had no such feelings, but was a traitor. (c) "we believe"
They murmur that His saying is hard, unwilling to ask Him humbly to explain it. If they had begged of Christ to declare this parable, He would have opened it to them; but they will not have His sayings explained, because they would lose their pretext for rejecting them.
AI summary
Commenting on John 6:60-71
69. And we have believed and known. The verbs are in the past tense, but they may be changed into the present tense, we believe and know, but it makes little difference in the meaning. In these words Peter gives a brief summary of faith.