Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version

John 6:63-71 Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version (ETR)

63. It is the Spirit that gives life. The body is of no value for that. But the things I have told you are from the Spirit, so they give life.

64. But some of you don’t believe.” (Jesus knew the people who did not believe. He knew this from the beginning. And he knew the one who would hand him over to his enemies.)

65. Jesus said, “That is why I said, ‘Anyone the Father does not help to come to me cannot come.’”

66. After Jesus said these things, many of his followers left and stopped following him.

67. Jesus asked the twelve apostles, “Do you want to leave too?”

68. Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, where would we go? You have the words that give eternal life.

69. We believe in you. We know that you are the Holy One from God.”

70. Then Jesus answered, “I chose all twelve of you. But one of you is a devil.”

71. He was talking about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. Judas was one of the twelve apostles, but later he would hand Jesus over to his enemies.