[64] But there are some of you who do not believe." Jesus knew from the beginning the ones who would not believe and the one who would betray him. [65] And he said, "For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by my Father." [66] As a result of this, many (of) his disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied him.
(CCC 472) This human soul that the Son of God assumed is endowed with a true human knowledge. As such, this knowledge could not in itself be unlimited: it was exercised in the historical conditions of his existence in space and time. This is why the Son of God could, when he became man, "increase in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man" (Lk 2:52), and would even have to inquire for himself about what one in the human condition can learn only from experience (Cf. Mk 6 38; 8:27; Jn 11:34; etc.). This corresponded to the reality of his voluntary emptying of himself, taking "the form of a slave" (Phil 2:7). (CCC 473) But at the same time, this truly human knowledge of God's Son expressed the divine life of his person (Cf. St. Gregory the Great, "Sicut aqua" ad Eulogium, Epist. Lib. 10, 39: PL 77, 1097A ff.; DS 475). "The human nature of God's Son, not by itself but by its union with the Word, knew and showed forth in itself everything that pertains to God" (St. Maximus the Confessor, Qu. Et dub. 66: PG 90, 840A). Such is first of all the case with the intimate and immediate knowledge that the Son of God made man has of his Father (Cf. Mk 14:36; Mt 11:27; Jn 1:18; 8:55; etc.). The Son in his human knowledge also showed the divine penetration he had into the secret thoughts of human hearts (Cf. Mk 2:8; Jn 2 25; 6:61; etc.). (CCC 474) By its union to the divine wisdom in the person of the Word incarnate, Christ enjoyed in his human knowledge the fullness of understanding of the eternal plans he had come to reveal (Cf. Mk 8:31; 9:31; 10:33-34; 14:18-20, 26-30). What he admitted to not knowing in this area, he elsewhere declared himself not sent to reveal (Cf. Mk 13:32, Acts 1:7).
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