John 6:66
Therefore many of his disciples drew back and no longer companied with him.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
In Context
65So he added, "This is why I told you that no on can come to me unless it be given from the Father."
67So Jesus appealed to the Twelve. "You also do not wish to leave me, do you?"
Cross References
Matthew 13:20"This is the seed sown by the wayside. And the word, and at once receives it with joy.
Matthew 21:8Then Jesus seated himself upon them, and most of the crowd kept spreading their cloaks on the road, and others began cutting branches off the trees, and spreading them in the road.
Luke 9:62But Jesus answered him, "No man who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back, is fit for the kingdom of God."
John 6:64"Yet there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was who should betray him.
2 Timothy 1:15You already know that all the Christians in Roman Asia forsook me, among them Phygellus and Hermogenes.
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 →