<p>6:44 <i>No one can come to me, except the Father that sent me draws him; and I will raise him up in the last day</i>- See on :40- the drawing power is surely in the cross itself, for this is what draws all men unto the lifted up Christ (12:32 s.w.). There was and is a magnetism about Him there. And yet the Lord said this before His death, to people who had walked and sailed in order to 'come to Him'. Now He says that the real coming to Him requires the Father's drawing, or dragging, as the Greek means. Paul in Romans cites this idea of calling, of one called and another not, as a parade example of how salvation is by grace and not works. Yet the Father's work of drawing or dragging people to Himself is still effected through human agency. John uses the same word in describing how the disciples &quot;drew&quot; the net containing 153 fishes to shore (21:6,11), clearly symbolic of the great catch of the Gospel.</p>