This led to an angry debate among the Jews. »How can this man,« they argued, »give us his flesh to eat?«
This also is John's testimony, when the Jews sent to him a deputation of Priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him who he was.
Again there arose a division among the Jews because of these words.
»How is it possible,« Nicodemus asked, »for a man to be born when he is old? Can he a second time enter his mother's womb and be born?«
»How is all this possible?« asked Nicodemus.
»Sir,« she said, »you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; so where can you get the living water from?
Now the Jews began to find fault about Him because of His claiming to be the bread which came down out of Heaven.
Many therefore of His disciples, when they heard it, said, »This is hard to accept. Who can listen to such teaching?«
This led some of the Pharisees to say, »That man has not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.«»How is it possible for a bad man to do such miracles?« argued others.
When they heard Paul speak of a resurrection of dead men, some began to scoff. But others said, »We will hear you again on that subject.«
The unspiritual man rejects the things of the Spirit of God, and cannot attain to the knowledge of them, because they are spiritually judged.