⁶⁰ Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?

⁶⁶ From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

⁶ And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.

⁴¹ The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.

⁴² And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?

³¹ Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;

⁴³ Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

¹¹ Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.

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