John 6:61

Many therefore of his disciples, hearing it, said: This saying is hard; and who can hear it?

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

In The King James Version

When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you?

In Context

60These things he said, teaching in the synagogue, in Capharnaum.

62But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them: Doth this scandalize you?

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Cross References

Matthew 11:6And blessed is he that shall not be scandalized in me. Scandalized in me... That is, who shall not take occasion of scandal or offence from my humility, and the disgraceful death of the cross which I shall endure.

John 6:64It is the spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. The flesh profiteth nothing... Dead flesh separated from the spirit, in the gross manner they supposed they were to eat his flesh, would profit nothing. Neither doth man's flesh, that is to say, man's natural and carnal apprehension, (which refuses to be subject to the spirit, and words of Christ,) profit any thing. But it would be the height of blasphemy, to say the living flesh of Christ (which we receive in the blessed sacarament, with his spirit, that is, with his soul and divinity) profiteth nothing. For if Christ's flesh had profitedus nothing, he would never have taken flesh for us, nor died in us nothing, he would never have taken flesh for us, nor died in the flesh for us. Are spirit and life... By proposing to you a heavenly sacrament, in which you shall receive, in a wonderful manner, spirit, grace, and life, in its very fountain.

Hebrews 4:13Neither is there any creature invisible in his sight: but all things are naked and open to his eyes, to whom our speech is.

Matthew Henry on John 6:61-71

Christ's Discourse with His Disciples; The Effect of Christ's Discourse; The Character of Judas. 60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it? 61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you? 62 What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? 63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.… Read the whole commentary →

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