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Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying! Who can hear it?"
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A "Hard" Saying
Commentators clarify that when the disciples called Jesus' teaching "hard," they didn't mean it was intellectually confusing. The Greek word used, 'sklēros,' means harsh, offensive, or disagreeable. The teaching was a stumbling block because it was difficult for their carnal minds to accept, not because it was hard to comprehend.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Many of his disciples. The word disciple means learner. It was applied to the followers of Christ because they were taug…
A hard saying (σκληρος). "This saying is a hard one." Old adjective, rough, harsh, dried hard (from σκελλω, to dry), probably the …
19th Century
Anglican
Many therefore of his disciples—that is, of the disciples in the wider sense; those who more or less fully were accepting…
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Baptist
This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ev…
The enigmatic words of Jesus puzzled some of the disciples just as much as they did the mixed crowd. “Disciples” (GK 3412) here refers to the total…
16th Century
Protestant
This is a harsh saying. On the contrary, it was in their hearts, and not in the saying, that the harshness lay. But out …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Many therefore of his disciples Not of the twelve, nor of the seventy, but of the multitude of the disciples, who fo…
The human nature of Christ had not previously been in heaven, but being God and man, that wondrous Person was truly said to have come down from hea…
13th Century
Catholic
Previously, our Lord checked the grumbling of the Jews over the origin of this spiritual food; here, he stops their dispute over the eati…
