John 6:60 {61}
Good News Translation
Many of his followers heard this and said, "This teaching is too hard. Who can listen to it?"

New Revised Standard Version
When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This teaching is difficult; who can accept it?”

Contemporary English Version
Many of Jesus' disciples heard him and said, "This is too hard for anyone to understand."

New American Bible
Then many of his disciples who were listening said, “This saying is hard; who can accept it?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Many therefore of his disciples, hearing it, said: This saying is hard; and who can hear it?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Many therefore of his disciples, hearing it, said: This saying is hard; and who can hear it?

of his.

John 6:66 After this, many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him.

John 8:31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed him: If you continue in my word, you shall be my disciples indeed.

This.

John 6:41,42 The Jews therefore murmured at him, because he had said: I am the living bread which came down from heaven. . . .

John 8:43 Why do you not know my speech? Because you cannot hear my word.

Matthew 11:6 And blessed is he that shall not be scandalized in me.

Hebrews 5:11 Of whom we have much to say and hard to be intelligibly uttered: because you are become weak to hear.

2 Peter 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

Context
Many Disciples Turn Back
59These things he said, teaching in the synagogue, in Capharnaum. 60Many therefore of his disciples, hearing it, said: This saying is hard; and who can hear it? 61But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them: Doth this scandalize you?…
Cross References
John 2:2
And Jesus also was invited, and his disciples, to the marriage.

John 5:25
Amen, amen, I say unto you, that the hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.

John 6:52
The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying: How can this man give us his flesh to eat?

John 6:64
But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that did not believe and who he was that would betray him.

John 6:66
After this, many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him.

John 7:3
And his brethren said to, him: Pass from hence and go into Judea, that thy disciples also may see thy works which thou dost.

John 6:59
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