John 6:60 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁶⁰ Many of his disciples, when they heard it, said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶⁰ Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶⁰ When His disciples heard this, many of them said, This is a hard and difficult and strange saying (an offensive and unbearable message). Who can stand to hear it? [Who can be expected to listen to such teaching?]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶⁰ Many therefore of his disciples, when they heard this, said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it?

Common English Bible

⁶⁰ Many of his disciples who heard this said, “This message is harsh. Who can hear it?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶⁰ He said these things when he was teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum.

John 6:60 Cross References

Matthew 11:6

And blessed is he who takes no offense at me.”

John 2:2

Jesus also was invited to the marriage, with his disciples.

John 5:25

“Truly, truly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

John 6:52

The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

John 6:64

But there are some of you that do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the first who those were that did not believe, and who it was that would betray him.

John 6:66

After this many of his disciples drew back and no longer went about with him.

John 7:3

So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples may see the works you are doing.

John 8:31

Jesus then said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples,

John 8:43

Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.

Hebrews 5:11

About this we have much to say which is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.

2 Peter 3:16

speaking of this as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures.