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 that must bear the blame howsoever; as she in Seneca that was stricken with sudden blindness, and then cried out of the light. A hypocrite is not discovered, till upon some critical point. If it come to a matter of cost, he cries, "What needs this waste?" if of pains, "This is an hard saying."