They no longer associated with him or professed him as the Messiah. None of these were the twelve. Christ had many others who generally attended his ministry and acknowledged him as the Messiah. Thou alone hast the words of eternal life. None can teach the doctrine of salvation but thyself.
None can confer the gift of eternal life but thou alone.
And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God. On the authority of thy word, and are sure by the evidence of thy miracles, that thou art the Christ, the promised Messiah. Based upon excerpts from Adam Clarke's Commentary, 2nd edition published in New York by Lane and Scott, 1850. 1999 Robert C. Denig. All rights reserved.