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John 6:60
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When Jesus' followers heard this, many of them said, "This teaching is hard. Who can accept it?"
Many of his disciples when they had herde this sayde: this is an herde sayinge: who can abyde the hearinge of it?
Therefore many of his talmidim, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying! Who can hear it?"
When many of his disciples heard this, they said, "This is a difficult statement. Who can acceptlisten to">[fn] it?"Matthew 11:6; John 6:66;">[xr]
So then many of His disciples, when they heard this, said, "This statement is very unpleasant; who can listen to it?"
When the followers of Jesus heard this, many of them said, "This teaching is hard. Who can accept it?"
Many therefore of his disciples, when they heard [this], said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it?
Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard [this], said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it?
When many of his disciples heard it, they said, "This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?"
Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying! Who can hear it?"
Many of his disciples hearing it, said, This is an hard saying: who can hear it?
Many therefore of His disciples, when they heard it, said, "This is hard to accept. Who can listen to such teaching?"
Therfor many of hise disciplis herynge, seiden, This word is hard, who may here it?
Many therefore of his disciples, when they heard this, said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it?
On hearing it, many of His disciples said, "This is a difficult teaching. Who can accept it?"
When many of His disciples heard this, they said, "This is a difficult and harsh and offensive statement. Who can [be expected to] listen to it?"
Many therefore of his disciples, when they heard this, said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it?
Then, hearing this, a number of his disciples said, This is a hard saying; who is able to take in such teaching?
On hearing it, many of his talmidim said, "This is a hard word — who can bear to listen to it?"
Many therefore of his disciples having heard [it] said, This word is hard; who can hear it?
And many of his disciples who heard said, A hard word is this: who can hear it ?
And many of his disciples who heard [fn] , said: This is a hard speech, who can hear it.
Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying, who can heare it?
Many of his disciples said, "This is very hard to understand. How can anyone accept it?"
After hearing this, many of His followers said, "This teaching is too hard! Who can listen to it?"
When many of his disciples heard it, they said, "This teaching is difficult; who can accept it?"
Many therefore of his disciples (when they heard this) sayde, This is an hard saying: who can heare it?
Many of his disciples who heard it said, This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?
Many, of his disciples, therefore, when they heard, said - Hard, is this discourse, - Who can, thereunto, hearken?
(6-61) Many therefore of his disciples, hearing it, said: This saying is hard; and who can hear it?
Many of his disciples, when they heard it, said, "This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?"
Many therfore of his disciples, when they had hearde this, saide: This is an harde saying, who can abyde the hearyng of it?
Many of his followers heard this and said, "This teaching is too hard. Who can listen to it?"
Therefore, when many of his disciples heard this, they said, “This teaching is hard. Who can accept it?”
Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?
Thus many of his disciples, when they heard it, said, "This saying is hard! Who can understand it?"
Then many of His disciples having heard, they said, This Word is hard; who is able to hear it?
many, therefore, of his disciples having heard, said, `This word is hard; who is able to hear it?'
Many now of his disciples that herde this, sayde: This is an harde sayenge, who maye abyde the hearynge of it?
when many of his disciples, who heard him, said, this is strange doctrine, who can hear it?
Many among his disciples heard this and said, "This is tough teaching, too tough to swallow."
Then many of his disciples, when they heard these things, said, "This is a difficult saying! Who can understand it?"
Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying; who can understand it?"
On hearing all of this, many of the day workers who followed him around said, "I quit. He's gone too far this time."
Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this said, "This is a difficult statement; who can listen to it?"
Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this said, "This is a difficult statement; who can listen to it?"
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
of his: John 6:66, John 8:31
This: John 6:41, John 6:42, John 8:43, Matthew 11:6, Hebrews 5:11, 2 Peter 3:16
Reciprocal: Matthew 24:10 - shall many Mark 6:3 - offended Mark 10:24 - astonished Luke 7:23 - General Luke 9:58 - Jesus John 3:4 - How John 3:9 - How John 7:36 - manner John 10:6 - they understood not John 14:22 - how Acts 17:20 - strange
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Many therefore of his disciples,.... Not of the twelve, nor of the seventy, but of the multitude of the disciples, who followed him from place to place, attended on his ministry, and might be baptized in his name; see John 4:1;
when they had heard [this]; that his flesh and blood were truly and really meat and drink, and that none had life in them, or should have eternal life, but such as eat and drink the same:
said, this is an hard saying; or it is to be objected to; so קש××, "an hard thing", the word here used in the Syriac version, and ×¢××
×§×©× ×××, "it is to me a hard thing", are phrases used to express an objection in the Talmudic writings, where they are often met with: or it is difficult to be understood and received; so ×××ר ×קש×, "an hard saying", or "an hard cause", is a cause difficult to be tried and determined, Exodus 18:26, and is used of that which seems incredible and absurd, and is surprising and unaccountable: so it is said z, that
"it happened to a certain woman, that she came before R. Abika: she said to him, I have seen a spot; he said to her, perhaps there is a wound in thee; she answered him, yes, and it is healed; he replied, perhaps it may be opened, and the blood brought out; she answered him, yes; and he pronounced her clean. R. Abika saw his disciples look upon one another; and he said unto them, ×× ×××ר קש×, "is this an hard saying with you?"''
is it a difficult thing with you? does it seem absurd to you? or are you surprised at it? anything difficult, or which seems irreconcilable, is so called: so the slaying the passover between the two evenings is called by Aben Ezra, in Exodus 12:6, ××× ×§×©×, "an hard saying". In like sense the phrase is used here; and the allusion may be to food that is hard of digestion, since Christ had been speaking of himself under the metaphors of bread and meat. As some of the doctrines of Christ are comparable to milk, which is easy of digestion; others are like to strong meat, which belongs to those of full age, and cannot be digested by children, by babes in Christ, and much less be received, ate, and digested, with ease and pleasure, by carnal minds; who therefore say, as these Capernaites did,
who can hear it? this saying, or doctrine, concerning eating the flesh, and drinking the blood of Christ; or "him" Christ, who delivered this doctrine: such preaching, and such a preacher, are intolerable; there is no hearing, nor bearing them: hence we afterwards read, that these withdrew from the ministry of Christ, John 6:66.
z Misn. Nidda, c. 8, sect. 3.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Many of his disciples - The word âdiscipleâ means âlearner.â It was applied to the followers of Christ because they were taught by him. It does not imply, of necessity, that those to whom it was given were real Christians, but simply that they were under his teaching, and were professed learners in his school. See Matthew 17:16; Mark 2:18; John 9:28; Matthew 10:24. It is doubtless used in this sense here. It is, however, often applied to those who are real Christians.
This is an hard saying - The word âhardâ here means âoffensive, disagreeableâ - that which they could not bear. Some have understood it to mean âdifficult to be understood,â but this meaning does not suit the connection. The doctrine which he delivered was opposed to their prejudices; it seemed to be absurd, and they therefore rejected it.
Saying - Rather doctrine or speech - Greek, λοÌÎ³Î¿Ï logos. It does not refer to any particular part of the discourse, but includes the whole.
Who can hear it? - That is, who can hear it patiently - who can stay and listen to such doctrine or believe it. The effect of this is stated in John 6:66. The doctrines which Jesus taught that were so offensive appear to have been:
1.That he was superior to Moses.
2.That God would save all that he had chosen and those only.
3.That he said he was the bread that came from heaven.
4.That it was necessary to partake of that; that it was necessary that an atonement should be made, and that they should be saved by that.
These doctrines have always been among the most offensive that men have been called on to believe, and many, rather than trust in them, have chosen to draw back to perdition.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 60. Many therefore of his disciples — So it appears that he had many more than the twelve, who constantly accompanied him.
This is a hard saying; who can hear it? — Who can digest such doctrine as this? It is intolerable: it is impracticable. There is a similar saving in Euripides, to the ÏκληÏÎ¿Ï Î»Î¿Î³Î¿Ï of the evangelist. ΠοÏεÏα Î¸ÎµÎ»ÎµÎ¹Ï Ïοι μαλθακα ÏÎµÏ Î´Î· λεγÏ, η ÏκληÏ' αληθη, ÏÏαζε; Tell me whether thou wouldst that I should speak unto thee, a SOFT LIE, or the HARSH TRUTH? The wicked word of a lying world is in general better received than the holy word of the God of truth!