On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?”
Blessed is anyone who does not stumble on account of me.”
and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.
Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live.
Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
Yet there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him.
From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.
Jesus’ brothers said to him, “Leave Galilee and go to Judea, so that your disciples there may see the works you do.
To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.
Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say.
We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand.
He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.