John 6:60 - New Revised Standard Version When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This teaching is difficult; who can accept it?” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) Many therefore of his disciples, when they heard this, said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it? Common English Bible Many of his disciples who heard this said, “This message is harsh. Who can hear it?” Catholic Public Domain Version He said these things when he was teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version These things he said, teaching in the synagogue, in Capharnaum. |
“Very truly, I tell you, the hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
But among you there are some who do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the first who were the ones that did not believe, and who was the one that would betray him.
Because of this many of his disciples turned back and no longer went about with him.
So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea so that your disciples also may see the works you are doing;
Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples;
Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot accept my word.
About this we have much to say that is hard to explain, since you have become dull in understanding.
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.