⁵² Then the Jews had an angry discussion among themselves, saying, How is it possible for this man to give us his flesh for food?

¹⁶ Then some of the Pharisees said, That man has not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath. Others said, How is it possible for a sinner to do such signs? So there was a division among them.

¹⁹ There was a division again among the Jews because of these words.

⁹ And Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for these things to be?

⁴¹ Now the Jews said bitter things about Jesus because of his words, I am the bread which came down from heaven.

⁴ Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for a man to be given birth when he is old? Is he able to go into his mother's body a second time and come to birth again?

¹¹ The woman said to him, Sir, you have no vessel and the fountain is deep; from where will you get the living water?

⁴⁰ When these words came to their ears, some of the people said, This is certainly the prophet.

⁴¹ Others said, This is the Christ. But others said, Not so; will the Christ come from Galilee?

⁴² Do not the Writings say that the Christ comes of the seed of David and from Beth-lehem, the little town where David was?

⁴³ So there was a division among the people because of him.

³² Now on hearing about the coming back from death, some of them made sport of it, but others said, Let us go more fully into this another time.

¹⁴ For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.