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|Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?

|Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?

|So Jesus said to the Twelve, "You don't want to leave too, do you?"

|So Jesus said to the Twelve, "You don't also want to leave, do you?"

|Here, Jesus is not asking what they WILL do, He is asking what they WANT to do: He is asking about their heart, and what they believe. Greek has a construction called the "Rhetorical question." It can be constructed to assume a "yes," or a "no," and the reader can tell what the assumed answer is from the construction of the question. Here, Jesus uses the construction that assumes a "no" answer to His question. Thus, when Jesus asked the question, the way He constructed it told them that He wanted them to answer with a "no."

|Greek has a construction called the "Rhetorical question." It can be constructed to assume a "yes," or a "no," and the reader can tell what the assumed answer is from the construction of the question. Here, Jesus uses the construction that assumes a "no" answer to His question. Thus, when Jesus asked the question, the way He constructed it told them that He wanted them to answer with a "no," which gives the question a much gentler tone than most English translations can express. Note that Jesus is not asking about what they WILL do, but about what they WANT to do; He's asking about their heart.

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