On hearing it, many of His disciples said, “This is a difficult teaching. Who can accept it?”
From that time on many of His disciples turned back and no longer walked with Him.
Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My message.
So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples.
Blessed is the one who does not fall away on account of Me.”
At this, the Jews began to grumble about Jesus because He had said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”
He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to unders
We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain, because you are dull of hearing.