Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
John 6:60 in context
John 6:57–63
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As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on me will also live because of me.
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This is the bread which came down out of heaven—not as our fathers ate the manna and died. He who eats this bread will live forever.”
59
He said these things in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
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Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?”
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But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, “Does this cause you to stumble?
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Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?
63
It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
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