John 6:60 - English Standard Version 2016 When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?” Matoleo zaidiKing 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. |
“Truly, truly, I say to you, an 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 there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)
So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing.
So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,
Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.
About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.