John 6:43-44

Jesus did not allow the people’s confusion about His origin to distress Him. He rebuked their grumbling dissatisfaction with what God had given them. However, He explained that those whom the Father had chosen for salvation among them would believe in Him regardless of their inability to reconcile His earthly and heavenly origins. The important thing for them to do was believe Him, not first harmonize all the apparent contradictions they observed.

"The thought of the divine initiative in salvation is one of the great doctrines of this Gospel, and indeed of the Christian faith." [Note: Morris, p. 328.]

Jesus clarified also that the Father’s drawing (Gr. helkyo) is selective (cf. John 6:37). He does not just draw everyone in the general sense of extending the gospel invitation to them. He selects some from the mass of humanity and brings them to Himself. It is that minority that Jesus will raise up to eternal life on the last day (cf. John 6:40). This truth does not contradict John 12:32 where Jesus said that He would draw (Gr. helkyo) all men to Himself. There He was speaking of all people without distinction, not just Jews but also Gentiles. He did not mean all people without exception.