Matthew 11:28

11:28 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

John 6:37

6:37 Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away. ¹ 

John 6:44-45

6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, ²  and I will raise him up at the last day. 6:45 It is written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ ³  Everyone who hears and learns from the Father ⁴  comes to me.

John 7:37

Teaching About the Spirit

7:37 On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, ⁵  Jesus stood up and shouted out, ⁶  “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and

¹ tn Or “drive away”; Grk “cast out.”

² tn Or “attracts him,” or “pulls him.” The word is used of pulling or dragging, often by force. It is even used once of magnetic attraction (A. Oepke, TDNT 2:503).

³ sn A quotation from Isa 54:13.

⁴ tn Or “listens to the Father and learns.”

⁵ sn There is a problem with the identification of this reference to the last day of the feast, the greatest day: It appears from Deut 16:13 that the feast went for seven days. Lev 23:36, however, makes it plain that there was an eighth day, though it was mentioned separately from the seven. It is not completely clear whether the seventh or eighth day was the climax of the feast, called here by the author the “last great day of the feast.” Since according to the Mishnah (m. Sukkah 4.1) the ceremonies with water and lights did not continue after the seventh day, it seems more probable that this is the day the author mentions.

⁶ tn Grk “Jesus stood up and cried out, saying.”