When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?”
After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him.
Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.
So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,
And blessed is the one who is not offended by me.”
So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” They said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.
About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
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