John 6:60 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• John 6:60 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Many of his disciples - The word “disciple” means “learner.” It was applied to the followers of Christ because they were taught by him. It does not imply, of necessity, that those to whom it was...

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• John 6:60 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (13) Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard [this], said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? (13) The reason of man cannot comprehend the uniting of Christ and his members: there...

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• John 6:60 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Further Jewish Objections. Further advance is made by the use for the first time of the phrase, to eat the flesh. To their question How? Jesus answers that the gift of life can be obtained only by...

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• John 6:60 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Many. Other than the twelve ( John 6:70 ). This is an hard saying . The emphasis is on "hard" by the Figure of speech Hyperbaton (App-6). saying . Greek. logos. See note on Mark 9:32 .

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• John 6:60 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  60. This is a harsh saying. On the contrary, it was in their hearts, and not in the saying, that the harshness lay. But out of the word of God the reprobate are thus accustomed to form...

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• John 6:60 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1642 THE GOSPEL A GROUND OF OFFENCE John 6:60 . Many therefore of his Disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? THE Gospel, to those who ha...

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• John 6:60 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this , said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? Many therefore of his disciples - So it appears that he had many more than the twelve, who...

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• John 6:60 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Many therefore of his disciples, &c.— As our Lord had a great number of disciples at large, who often attended his ministry, and made a profession of his name; so many of them, whose hearts wer...

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• John 6:60 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? Many therefore of his disciples - His pretty constant followers, though an outer circ...

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• John 6:60 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Bread of Life John 6:1 to John 7:1 . Feeding the five thousand. Walking upon the sea. Discourse upon the bread of life. Defection of many disciples. The Apostles stand firm. Returning from...

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• John 6:60 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Many therefore of his disciples — i.e., of the disciples in the wider sense; those who more or less fully were accepting His teaching, and were regarded as His followers. From John 6:64 , the Apos...

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• John 6:60 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 15 THE CRISIS IN GALILEE. “Many therefore of His disciples, when they heard this, said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it? But Jesus knowing in Himself that His disciples murmured at...

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• John 6:60 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Sifting of Jesus' Followers John 6:60-71 The teaching of this chapter involves a deliberate act of Christ to arrest the revolutionary movement that was gathering around His person and makin...

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• John 6:60 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The whole chapter really records things resulting from the conflict recorded in the previous one. Having crossed the sea, Jesus first fed the multitude, and they, enamored of His ability, attempted t...

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• John 6:60 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying: who can hear it? (61) When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth th...

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• John 6:60 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Many therefore of his disciples ,.... Not of the twelve, nor of the seventy, but of the multitude of the disciples, who followed him from place to place, attended on his ministry, and might be bapti...

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• John 6:60 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this , said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? Ver. 60. This is an hard saying ] The hardness was in themselves, not in the word; but...

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• John 6:60 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Many of his disciples That is, of those who followed him as such; when they had heard this Had heard the above discourse; said, This is a hard saying A strange discourse, a doctrine difficult t...

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• John 6:60 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  FEEDING THE FIVE THOUSAND (vs.1-13) The setting here is no longer Jerusalem, but Galilee, and the contrast to the beginning of chapter 5 is striking. For here grace shines out beautifully, availa...

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• John 6:60 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Christ's Discourse with His Disciples; The Effect of Christ's Discourse; The Character of Judas.       60 Many therefore of his discip...

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• John 6:60 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  His disciples; his followers, not those that were his disciples indeed, but in name; for many followed him that did not believe in him; and many (in a sense) believed, to whom he did not commit him...

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• John 6:60 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘Many therefore of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying. Who can hear it?” ' Some of the wider group of disciples, those who were following Him around to learn and to co...

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• John 6:60 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 6:22-24 . None other boat, rather little ship (πλοιάριον).—The meaning of this long and complicated sentence is plain. A number of the crowd who had been pre...

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• John 6:60 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  John 6:41 . The Jews then murmured at him, That is, at the Christ, John 6:41-42 . Because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Jos...

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• John 6:60 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  John 6:2 . A great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles. But being dull of apprehension, they seemed to have no idea that the Lord could feed the hungry, as well as heal the sick....

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• John 6:60 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Many therefore of His disciples, when they heard this, said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it? The defection of the disciples I. OCCASIONED BY A HARD SAYING ( John 6:60 ). It was unquesti...

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• John 6:60 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION John 6:1-43 2. Christ declares himself to be the Sustainer and Protector of the life of which he is the Source . John 6:1-43 (1) The supply of human wants illustrat...

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• John 6:60 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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

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• John 6:60 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Peter 3:16 ; Hebrews 5:11 ; John 6:41 ; John 6:42 ; John 6:66 ; John 8:31 ; John 8:43 ; Matthew 11:6

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• John 6:60 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  This is a hard saying — Hard to the children of the world, but sweet to the children of God. Scarce ever did our Lord speak more sublimely, even to the apostles in private. Who can hear — Endure it...

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