Many Disciples Desert Jesus

60 On hearing it, many of his disciples(A) said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?”(B)

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60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?

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Dispute Over Whose Children Jesus’ Opponents Are

31 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching,(A) you are really my disciples.

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31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;

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66 From this time many of his disciples(A) turned back and no longer followed him.

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66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

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43 Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say.

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43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

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Blessed is anyone who does not stumble on account of me.”(A)

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And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.

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16 He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable(A) people distort,(B) as they do the other Scriptures,(C) to their own destruction.

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16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

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41 At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” 42 They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph,(A) whose father and mother we know?(B) How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’?”(C)

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41 The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.

42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?

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Warning Against Falling Away(A)

11 We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand.

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11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.

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