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John 6:60
John 6:60 is verse 60 of John chapter 6, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
On hearing it, many of His disciples said, “This is a difficult teaching. Who can accept it?”
King James Version
Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?
World English Bible
Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?”
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John 6:58–62 · Berean Standard Bible
58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your fathers, who ate the manna and died, the one who eats this bread will live forever.”
59 Jesus said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
60 On hearing it, many of His disciples said, “This is a difficult teaching. Who can accept it?”
61 Aware that His disciples were grumbling about this teaching, Jesus asked them, “Does this offend you?
62 Then what will happen if you see the Son of Man ascend to where He was before?
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
John 6:66From that time on many of His disciples turned back and no longer walked with Him.
John 8:31So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples.
John 6:41At this, the Jews began to grumble about Jesus because He had said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”
John 6:42They were asking, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then can He say, ‘I have come down from heaven?’”
John 8:43Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My message.
Matthew 11:6Blessed is the one who does not fall away on account of Me.”
Hebrews 5:11We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain, because you are dull of hearing.
2 Peter 3:16He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.