Cheryl Schatz

Hi Rick, welcome to The Giving blog! You said “Verse 64 is simply a narrative of the unbelief of those hearing, because they had not been given life by the Spirit.” That cannot be true because in verse 64 the phrase “there are some of you who do not believe” is marked in the Greek as an important Sentence Point (not a lesser sub point.) In contrast the phrase from verse 63 “The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life” is marked as a lesser counter-point. So verse 65 “it is granted him by the Father” is an important Sentence Point as well as verse 64 “there are some of you who do not believe”. It would not be right to connect an important Sentence Point to a previous sub point from two verses before. The sub-point for verse 65 is “no one can come to me”. I am going to see if I can post the pictures under the comment section here or else I will create a new post to show the important grammar points. The important thing to note is that I have not “convoluted the meaning” because the emphases in the grammar supports my view.