³⁶ What does he mean by saying, ^(A)‘You will seek me and you will not find me,’ and, ‘Where I am you cannot come’?”

^34 (A)You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come.”

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

¹⁴ The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are ^(A)folly to him, and ^(B)he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

¹⁷ So ^(A)some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ^(B)‘A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’; and, ^(C)‘because I am going to the Father’?” ¹⁸ So they were saying, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? ^(D)We do not know what he is talking about.”

³⁴ So the crowd answered him, “We have heard from the Law that ^(A)the Christ remains forever. How can you say that ^(B)the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”

The Words of Eternal Life

^60 (A)When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?”

⁵² The Jews then ^(A)disputed among themselves, saying, ^(B)“How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

⁴¹ So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, ^(A)“I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

⁴ Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?”