John 6:70
Greek (Tischendorf 8th ed.) John 6:70 appears in the Greek New Testament. The text above is from the Tischendorf 8th edition. Each word links to its Strong’s number and a concise gloss. Click any word for its full Thayer’s Greek Lexicon entry.Jesus answered them, "Didn't I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?"
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World English Bible Public Domain
Jesus answered them, "Didn't I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?"
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King James Version Public Domain
Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Jesus replied to them, “Did not I choose you, the Twelve, and one of you is a devil?”
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Jesus answered them, "Didn't I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?"
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Jesus answered them, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!”
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Jesus answered them, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!”
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King James Version Public Domain
Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
Jesus answered them, Did not I choose you the twelve, and one of you is a devil?
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
Jesus answered them, Did not I choose you the twelve, and one of you is a devil?
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Iesus answered them, Haue not I chosen you twelue, and one of you is a deuill?
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And we have believed and have known, that thou art the Christ, the Son of God.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Jesus answered them, `Did not I choose you -- the twelve? and of you -- one is a devil.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you—the Twelve? And of you—one is a devil.”
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Jesus said to them, “Did not I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Jesus replied to them, “Did not I choose you, the Twelve, and one of you is a devil?”
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Darby Bible Public Domain
Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you the twelve? and of you one is a devil.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Yeshua answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Jesus replied, “Didn't I choose you, the twelve disciples? Yet one of you is a devil.”
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Then Jesus said, Did I not make a selection of you, the twelve, and one of you is a son of the Evil One?
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Text-Critical English NT CC BY 4.0
Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve? And yet one of you is a devil.”
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Tyndale New Testament (1534) Public Domain
Iesus answered them: Have not I chosen you twelve and yet one of you is the devyll?
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- Appears 22× in the Greek New Testament
- First appears at Mark 13:20
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- Verb
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- Aorist
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- Middle
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- Indicative
- Person
- 1st person
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- Singular
Full Thayer's Definition
- ἀπεκρίθη apokrínomai G611 “to answer” Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular
- αὐτοῖς autós G846 “he” Personal pronoun, Dative, Plural, Masculine
- οὐκ ou G3756 “not” Particle, Negative
- ἐγὼ egṓ G1473 “I” Personal pronoun, 1st person, Nominative, Singular
- ὑμᾶς hymeîs G5210 “you” Personal pronoun, 2nd person, Accusative, Plural
- τοὺς ho G3588 “the” Article, Accusative, Plural, Masculine
- δώδεκα dṓdeka G1427 “twelve” Adjective, Numeral (indeclinable)
- ἐξελεξάμην eklégomai G1586 “to choose” Verb, Aorist, Middle, Indicative, 1st person, Singular
- καὶ kaí G2532 “and” Conjunction
- ἐξ ek G1537 “from” Preposition
- ὑμῶν hymeîs G5210 “you” Personal pronoun, 2nd person, Genitive, Plural
- εἷς heîs G1520 “one” Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine
- διάβολός diábolos G1228 “slanderous” Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine
- ἐστιν eimí G1510 “to be” Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 14
- words
- 13
- distinct lemmas
- Gospels
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is ἐξελεξάμην to choose G1586 — appearing just 22 times in the whole Greek New Testament.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
ἐξελεξάμην to choose G1586 occurs in 20 verses of the Greek New Testament. Also found in:
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse:
- ὑμᾶς you G5210 ×2
Cross-references
17Topical passages linked to John 6:70 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- John 13:27 After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, "What you do, do quickly."
- John 13:2 After supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,
- John 6:64 But there are some of you who don't believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn't believe, and who it was who would betray him.
- John 17:12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost, except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
- John 13:18 I don't speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.'
- Revelation 3:9–10 Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but lie. Behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.
- Luke 6:13–16 When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles:
- John 8:44 You are of your Father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it.
- John 13:21 When Jesus had said this, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, "Most assuredly I tell you that one of you will betray me."
- John 15:16 You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
- John 15:19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
- Acts 1:17 For he was numbered with us, and received his portion in this ministry.
- 1 Timothy 3:11 Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
- 1 John 3:8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
- Matthew 10:1–4 He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness.
- Titus 2:3 and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
- Acts 13:10 and said, "Full of all deceit and all cunning, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
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Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
John, in the Gospels, opens this verse with 14 words (13 distinct Greek lemmas). Its most distinctive word is eklégomai (“to choose”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “to choose” (eklégomai) shape what this verse is saying?
- Mark 13:20 shares the word «to choose» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “you” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- Reading how The Biblical Illustrator and Joseph Benson's Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 7 words in this verse.
- “you” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 13 distinct Greek lemmas span 14 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on John 6:70 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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The Biblical Illustrator
Joseph S. Exell
The Biblical Illustrator, edited by Joseph S. Exell (c. 1880s–1900s) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Joseph Benson's Commentary
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale Open Resources
Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Bengel's Gnomon
Johann Albrecht Bengel
Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament — English translation (T&T Clark, Edinburgh, 1860) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Meyer's Critical & Exegetical Commentary
Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer
Meyer — Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament — English translation by Peter Christie, edited by Frederick Crombie (T&T Clark, 1880) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Expositor's Greek Testament
ed. W. Robertson Nicoll
The Expositor's Greek Testament, edited by W. Robertson Nicoll (1897–1910) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Calvin's Commentaries
John Calvin's Commentaries (1540-1563) — public domain. Text from the Calvin Translation Society English edition (1840s-50s) via the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (ccel.org). Calvin's coverage is partial (roughly two-thirds of the Bible); uncommented books and verses are honest gaps, never fabricated. The 19th-century editor's footnotes and remarks are omitted so the notes are faithfully Calvin's own voice.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Scofield Reference Notes
C. I. Scofield
The Scofield Reference Bible (1917 edition), notes by C. I. Scofield — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The People's New Testament
B. W. Johnson
B. W. Johnson's The People's New Testament with Notes (1889–1891) — public domain. Electronic text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL) ThML edition.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.
Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges
Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges (Cambridge University Press, 1896; 21 vols, various authors incl. Carr, Maclear, Plummer, Farrar, Lumby, Moule, M. R. James, Simcox) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Alford’s Greek Testament
Henry Alford
Henry Alford, The Greek Testament (1849–1861) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
International Critical Commentary
International Critical Commentary — older volumes (1896–1929), various authors — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament
Marvin R. Vincent
Marvin R. Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament (1887–1900) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Godet's Commentaries
Frédéric Louis Godet
Frédéric Louis Godet — Commentaries on Luke, John, Romans, and 1 Corinthians — English translation (T&T Clark, Edinburgh, 1870s–1890s) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.