Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”
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
70. Jesus answered them. Since Christ replies to all, we infer from it that all spake by the mouth of Peter. Besides, Christ now prepares and fortifies the eleven apostles against a new offense which was already at hand. It was a powerful instrument of Satan for shaking their faith, when they were reduced to so small a number, but the fall of Judas might...
Verse 70. Have not I chosen you twelve? There is much emphasis in these words. Have not I--I, the Saviour, the Messiah, chosen you in mercy and in love, and therefore it will be a greater sin to betray me? Chosen. Chosen to the apostolic office; conferred on you marks of peculiar favour, and treason is therefore the greater sin. You twelve. So small a number.