John 6:44 - No one is able to come unless the Father draws

Does John 6:44 have conditions?

John 6:44: "No-one is-able TO-COME to Me unless the Father having-sent Me MAY-HAVE-DRAWN him. And I will-raise him up in the last day."

Conditions:

Jesus said: "No-one is-able TO-COME to Me unless the Father having-sent Me MAY-HAVE-DRAWN him" (John 6:44). 

How may the Father DRAW someone so that this one is able "TO-COME" (John 6:44) to Jesus? The very next verse reads: "It has-been-written in the prophets: ‘and they-shall-be all TAUGHT (ones of) God’. Everyone having-heard from the Father and having-learned, COMES to Me" (John 6:45). 

The Father may DRAW people by TEACHING them, as it is written: "they-shall-be all TAUGHT (ones of) God" (John 6:45) so that as a result of that DRAWING "Everyone having-heard from the Father and having-learned, COMES to Me" (John 6:45). 

Jesus said: "No-one is-able to-come to Me unless the Father having-sent Me MAY-HAVE-DRAWN him" (John 6:44). Jesus said that a necessary condition for someone to be "able to-come to Me" (John 6:44) is that "the Father having-sent Me MAY-HAVE-DRAWN him" (John 6:44).

Jesus did not say that everyone the Father MAY-HAVE-DRAWN will necessarily come to Jesus, but Jesus said unless the Father MAY-HAVE-DRAWN someone, that one is not able to come to Jesus.

Indeed, someone can decide to not pay attention to the DRAWING from the Father, as it is written: "You DREW upon them many years, and testified to them by Your Spirit by (the) hand of Your prophets; but they did not pay attention" (Nehemiah 9:30 (LXX)). This would be (in other words) them not "having-heard from the Father and having-learned" (John 6:45).

Jesus said: "No-one is-able TO-COME TO Me unless the Father having-sent Me may-have-drawn him" (John 6:44).

A condition "TO-COME TO" Jesus is for example to be willing to, as Jesus said: "you-are not willing TO-COME TO Me in-order-that you-may-have life" (John 5:40).

A condition "TO-COME TO" Jesus is for example having heard from the Father and having learned, as Jesus said: "Everyone having-heard from the Father and having-learned, COMES TO Me" (John 6:45). The Greek words for "having-heard" (John 6:45) and "having-learned" (John 6:45) are in the active voice, which can indicate that the subject is the doer or performer of the action.

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