⁹ Nicodemus answered and said to Him, ^(A)“How can these things be?”

Many Disciples Turn Away

^60 (A)Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a ^[a]hard saying; who can understand it?”

⁵² The Jews therefore ^(A)quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this Man give us His flesh to eat?”

³⁴ Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I ^[a]do not know a man?”