John 6:70
New International Version
Then Jesus replied, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!”

New Living Translation
Then Jesus said, “I chose the twelve of you, but one is a devil.”

English Standard Version
Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve? And yet one of you is a devil.”

Berean Standard Bible
Jesus answered them, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!”

Berean Literal Bible
Jesus answered them, "Did I not choose you, the Twelve? And one of you is a devil!"

King James Bible
Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?

New King James Version
Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”

New American Standard Bible
Jesus answered them, “Did I Myself not choose you, the twelve? And yet one of you is a devil.”

NASB 1995
Jesus answered them, “Did I Myself not choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is a devil?”

NASB 1977
Jesus answered them, “Did I Myself not choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is a devil?”

Legacy Standard Bible
Jesus answered them, “Did I Myself not choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is a devil?”

Amplified Bible
Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve [disciples]? And yet one of you is a devil (ally of Satan).”

Christian Standard Bible
Jesus replied to them, “Didn’t I choose you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Jesus replied to them, “Didn’t I choose you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is the Devil!”

American Standard Version
Jesus answered them, Did not I choose you the twelve, and one of you is a devil?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Yeshua said to them, “Have I not chosen you twelve, and one of you is a Satan?”

Contemporary English Version
Jesus told his disciples, "I chose all twelve of you, but one of you is a demon!"

Douay-Rheims Bible
Jesus answered them: Have not I chosen you twelve; and one of you is a devil?

English Revised Version
Jesus answered them, Did not I choose you the twelve, and one of you is a devil?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Jesus replied, "I chose all twelve of you. Yet, one of you is a devil."

Good News Translation
Jesus replied, "I chose the twelve of you, didn't I? Yet one of you is a devil!"

International Standard Version
Jesus answered them, "I chose you, the Twelve, didn't I? Yet one of you is a devil."

Literal Standard Version
Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you—the Twelve? And of you—one is a devil.”

Majority Standard Bible
Jesus answered them, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!”

New American Bible
Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you twelve? Yet is not one of you a devil?”

NET Bible
Jesus replied, "Didn't I choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is the devil?"

New Revised Standard Version
Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve? Yet one of you is a devil.”

New Heart English Bible
Jesus answered them, "Did I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?"

Webster's Bible Translation
Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?

Weymouth New Testament
"Did not I choose you--the Twelve?" said Jesus, "and even of you one is a devil."

World English Bible
Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”

Young's Literal Translation
Jesus answered them, 'Did not I choose you -- the twelve? and of you -- one is a devil.

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Context
Peter's Confession of Faith
69We believe and know that You are the Holy One of God.” 70 Jesus answered them, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!” 71He was speaking about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. For although Judas was one of the Twelve, he was later to betray Jesus.…

Cross References
Matthew 10:2
These are the names of the twelve apostles: first Simon, called Peter, and his brother Andrew; James son of Zebedee, and his brother John;

John 2:2
and Jesus and His disciples had also been invited to the wedding.

John 6:67
So Jesus asked the Twelve, "Do you want to leave too?"

John 6:71
He was speaking about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. For although Judas was one of the Twelve, he was later to betray Jesus.

John 8:44
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

John 13:2
The evening meal was underway, and the devil had already put into the heart of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus.

John 13:18
I am not speaking about all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the Scripture: 'The one who shares My bread has lifted up his heel against Me.'


Treasury of Scripture

Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?

Have.

John 6:64
But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.

John 13:18
I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.

John 17:12
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

and one.

John 8:44
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

John 13:2,21,27
And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him; …

Acts 13:10
And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

a devil.

1 Timothy 3:11
Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

Titus 2:3
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

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John 6
1. Jesus feeds five thousand men with five loaves and two fishes.
15. Thereupon the people would have made him king;
16. but withdrawing himself, he walks on the sea to his disciples;
26. reproves the people flocking after him, and all the fleshly hearers of his word;
32. declares himself to be the bread of life to believers.
66. Many disciples depart from him.
68. Peter confesses him.
70. Judas is a devil.














(70) One of you is a devil.--But even the brightness of His hope in them is not uncrossed by a shadow; and this shadow is seen in its fearful darkness by the light of the truth, which, like a flash of inspiration, has come to Peter's heart, and has been spoken in the names of all. No human joy is for the Man of Sorrows unmarred. The very height to which these eleven have risen, through doubt and difficulty, in honest hearts and earnest lives, shows the depth to which one, with like power and capacity, like call and opportunity, had fallen. The order of the words is emphatic in the sadness which asks the question, Did I not choose you twelve, and of you one is devil? There was the same choice for all, and the choice made, as it is always made, from their fitness and promise for the work for which all were chosen. And of even twelve, one who was subject for hope then is beyond hope now. There may be mystery connected with this life of Judas which none of us can understand; there are certainly warnings connected with it which none of us can refuse to heed.

A devil.--The meaning would be more exactly given, perhaps, if the word were simply rendered devil, but this can hardly be expressed in English. See Note on Matthew 16:23, and, further on Judas, see Notes on Acts 1:16-25.

Verse 70. - The answer of the Lord is one of the most solemn and heart-rending character, and a further hint from his own lips of what the evangelist had uttered on his own account. It is an outburst of bitter grief over the moral imperfections which are developing under this strong revelation of the Divine glory. Did I not choose - I, even I the Holy One of God - you the twelve to myself (ἐξελεξάμην), and of you one is a devil? This "choice" is repeatedly referred to (John 13:18; John 15:16; cf. Luke 6:13; Acts 1:2, 24). "He appointed twelve to be with him, that he might send them forth to preach, and to have power to cast out daemons" (Mark 3:14). This choice was made in the full human self-consciousness and knowledge of their peculiarities. It is morally inconceivable that he, in his Divine foreknowledge, chose Judas to special reprobation, knowing him then to be devilish in his nature, and so that he might have his character demoralized by this close contact with Christ's holiness, and thus be trained for the damnation of the traitor's sin and doom. Yet this choice, to Christ's human nature and self-consciousness, was early seen to be one which was not softening but hardening the heart of Judas. He brought him nearer to himself, and gave him fresh opportunity of acquiring just ideas of the kingdom and its methods, and by these warnings the Lord was giving him chance after chance of escaping from what, even to the Lord's prophetic human foresight, looked like his destiny. "One of you," says he - "one is devil." Official relation to me is not salvation. Even the admission that I am the Holy One of God is not eternal life. We may compare Christ's severe rebuke to Peter, when, after the grand confession (Matthew 16:16), he counted himself worthy to disapprove the methods of his Lord's mercy, "Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence to me; thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men." Judas did far worse - he wanted to use the Divine power of his Master for his own personal ends.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Jesus
Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2424: Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites.

answered
Ἀπεκρίθη (Apekrithē)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 611: From apo and krino; to conclude for oneself, i.e. to respond; by Hebraism to begin to speak.

them,
αὐτοῖς (autois)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

“{Have} I
ἐγὼ (egō)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

not
Οὐκ (Ouk)
Adverb
Strong's 3756: No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not.

chosen
ἐξελεξάμην (exelexamēn)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Middle - 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1586: To pick out for myself, choose, elect, select. Middle voice from ek and lego; to select.

you,
ὑμᾶς (hymas)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

the
τοὺς (tous)
Article - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

Twelve?
δώδεκα (dōdeka)
Adjective - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 1427: Twelve; the usual way in which the Twelve apostles of Jesus are referred to. From duo and deka; two and ten, i.e. A dozen.

Yet
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

one
εἷς (heis)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 1520: One. (including the neuter Hen); a primary numeral; one.

of
ἐξ (ex)
Preposition
Strong's 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.

you
ὑμῶν (hymōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

is
ἐστιν (estin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

a devil!”
διάβολός (diabolos)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 1228: From diaballo; a traducer; specially, Satan.


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