⁶⁰ many, therefore, of his disciples having heard, said, `This word is hard; who is able to hear it?'

⁶⁶ From this `time' many of his disciples went away backward, and were no more walking with him,

⁶ and happy is he who may not be stumbled in me.'

⁴¹ The Jews, therefore, were murmuring at him, because he said, `I am the bread that came down out of the heaven;'

⁴² and they said, `Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have known? how then saith this one -- Out of the heaven I have come down?'

³¹ Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, `If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth,

⁴³ wherefore do ye not know my speech? because ye are not able to hear my word.

¹¹ concerning whom we have much discourse and of hard explanation to say, since ye have become dull of hearing,

¹⁶ as also in all the epistles, speaking in them concerning these things, among which things are certain hard to be understood, which the untaught and unstable do wrest, as also the other Writings, unto their own destruction.