John 6:60 “On hearing it, many of His disciples said, “This is a difficult teachi…”

John 6:60

On hearing it, many of His disciples said, “This is a difficult teaching. Who can accept it?”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?

World English Bible

Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?”

American Standard Version

Many therefore of his disciples, when they heard this, said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it?

Geneva Bible 1599

Many therefore of his disciples (when they heard this) sayde, This is an hard saying: who can heare it?

Darby Translation

Many therefore of his disciples having heard [it] said, This word is hard; who can hear it?

Young's Literal Translation

many, therefore, of his disciples having heard, said, 'This word is hard; who is able to hear it?'

Bible in Basic English

Then, hearing this, a number of his disciples said, This is a hard saying; who is able to take in such teaching?

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Cross references

“of his”

John 6:66 John 8:31

John 6:66 · BSB

From that time on many of His disciples turned back and no longer walked with Him.

John 8:31 · BSB

So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples.

“This”

John 8:43 Matthew 11:6 2 Peter 3:16 Hebrews 5:11 John 6:41 John 6:42

John 8:43 · BSB

Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My message.

Matthew 11:6 · BSB

Blessed is the one who does not fall away on account of Me. ”

2 Peter 3:16 · BSB

He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their ow…

Hebrews 5:11 · BSB

We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain, because you are dull of hearing.

John 6:41 · BSB

At this, the Jews began to grumble about Jesus because He had said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

John 6:42 · BSB

They were asking, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then can He say, ‘I have come down from heaven?’”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

59Jesus said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

61Aware that His disciples were grumbling about this teaching, Jesus asked them, “Does this offend you?

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