John 6:60

Plain English Version

Jesus’s followers heard him teaching those things and a lot of them said, “This message is too hard. We can’t believe it.”

Cross References

Matthew 11:6

Maybe I’m not the sort of person you thought God would send, but just trust me anyway, and God will make you happy.”

John 5:25

Listen, there are people that are spiritually dead, but I am God’s son, and I am telling you straight, a time is coming when they will hear my voice, and if they listen to me, they will come alive spiritually. And that time is happening now.

John 6:52

The Jewish leaders heard what he said, and they started to argue with each other about what Jesus meant. They said, “He reckons he will give people his body to eat. What does he mean? We can’t eat his body.”

John 6:64

But I know that some of you don’t believe the words I said.” Jesus always knew that there were some people that didn’t believe in him, and he knew who they were. He also knew about the man that was going to turn against him and help his enemies catch him.

John 6:66

After Jesus’s followers heard him say that, a lot of them turned away and stopped following him.

John 7:3

Jesus’s brothers didn’t believe that he was the special man that God sent, so they gave him a hard time. They said to him, “You want people to think you are great, right? Well, show everyone what you can do. Don’t hide what you are doing. You have to leave Galilee and come south to Jerusalem city, in Judea, so you can show your followers more of those powerful things you do.”

John 8:31

Jesus talked to the Jewish people that believed in him. He said, “If you keep on following me, and if you do the things I teach you, then you will be my proper followers,

John 8:43

Why don’t you understand what I am saying? It is because you don’t want to do what I say. That is the reason why you don’t listen to me.

2 Peter 3:16

and he writes about them in all his letters. Some things in his letters are hard to understand. Some people don’t know much about God, and they are not sure about the things they believe. They talk about Paul’s letters the wrong way. They turn Paul’s words around so that they say something that is wrong. And they do that with other words in God’s book too. When they do that, they make things bad for themselves, and in the end God will punish them.