SEV Biblia, Chapter 6:44
Ninguno puede venir a mí, si el Padre que me envi no le trajere; y yo le resucitar en el día postrero.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - John 6:44
Verse 44. Except the Father-draw him] But how is a man drawn? St. Augustin answers from the poet, Trahit sua quemque voluptas; a man is attracted by that which he delights in. Show green herbage to a sheep, he is drawn by it: show nuts to a child, and he is drawn by them. They run wherever the person runs who shows these things: they run after him, but they are not forced to follow; they run, through the desire they feel to get the things they delight in. So God draws man: he shows him his wants-he shows the saviour whom he has provided for him: the man feels himself a lost sinner; and, through the desire which he finds to escape hell, and get to heaven, he comes unto Christ, that he may be justified by his blood. Unless God thus draw, no man will ever come to Christ; because none could, without this drawing, ever feel the need of a saviour. See August. Tract. 26, in Joan. and Calmet.
Drawing, or alluring, not dragging is here to be understood. "He," say the rabbins, "who desires to cleave to the holy and blessed God, God lays hold of him, and will not cast him off." Synops. Sohar. p. 87. The best Greek writers use the verb in the same sense of alluring, inciting, &c.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 36-46 - The discovery of their guilt, danger, and remedy, by the teaching of the Holy Spirit, makes men willing and glad to come, and to give u every thing which hinders applying to him for salvation. The Father' will is, that not one of those who were given to the Son, should be rejected or lost by him. No one will come, till Divine grace ha subdued, and in part changed his heart; therefore no one who comes wil ever be cast out. The gospel finds none willing to be saved in the humbling, holy manner, made known therein; but God draws with his wor and the Holy Ghost; and man's duty is to hear and learn; that is to say, to receive the grace offered, and consent to the promise. None ha seen the Father but his beloved Son; and the Jews must expect to be taught by his inward power upon their minds, and by his word, and the ministers whom he sent among them.
Greek Textus Receptus
ουδεις 3762 A-NSM δυναται 1410 5736 V-PNI-3S ελθειν 2064 5629 V-2AAN προς 4314 PREP με 3165 P-1AS εαν 1437 COND μη 3361 PRT-N ο 3588 T-NSM πατηρ 3962 N-NSM ο 3588 T-NSM πεμψας 3992 5660 V-AAP-NSM με 3165 P-1AS ελκυση 1670 5661 V-AAS-3S αυτον 846 P-ASM και 2532 CONJ εγω 1473 P-1NS αναστησω 450 5692 V-FAI-1S αυτον 846 P-ASM τη 3588 T-DSF εσχατη 2078 A-DSF ημερα 2250 N-DSF
Vincent's NT Word Studies
44. Draw (elkush). Two words for drawing are found in the New Testament, surw and eJlkuw. The distinction is not habitually observed, and the meanings often overlap. Surw is originally to drag or trail along, as a garment or torn slippers. Both words are used of haling to justice. (See Acts viii. 3; xvii. 6; xvi. 19.) In Acts xiv. 19, su.rw, of dragging Paul's senseless body out of the city at Lystra. In John xxi. 6, 8, 11, both words of drawing the net. In John xviii. 10, eJlkuw, of drawing Peter's sword. One distinction, however, is observed: surw is never used of Christ's attraction of men. See vi. 44; xii. 32. Elkuw occurs only once outside of John's writings (Acts xvi. 19). Luther says on this passage: "The drawing is not like that of the executioner, who draws the thief up the ladder to the gallows; but it is a gracious allurement, such as that of the man whom everybody loves, and to whom everybody willingly goes."
