Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 6:60
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?
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?
Verse 60. _MANY THEREFORE OF HIS DISCIPLES_] So it appears that he had _many more_ than the twelve, who constantly accompanied him. _THIS IS A HARD SAYING; WHO CAN HEAR IT?_] Who can digest such doc...
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 given...
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The Feeding of the Five Thousand Men. (John 6:1 .)_ 2. The Attempt to Make Him King, (John 6:15 .) 3. The Stormy Sea. “It is I, be not afraid.” (John 6:16 .) 4. The Discourse on the...
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 suc...
DOTH THIS OFFEND YOU? His disciples could not take in what had just been said. They expected an earthly king, not. crucified Savior. Hence they murmured and were offended....
When they had heard this discourse many of his disciples said: "This word is hard! Who is able to listen to it?" Jesus well knew within himself that his disciples were murmuring about this; so he said...
THE LOAVES AND FISHES (John 6:1-13)...
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....
Opposite Results of the Discourse 60. _Many therefore of his disciples_ Including many more than the Apostles. _This is a hard saying_ Or, HARD IS THIS SPEECH. Not hard to understand, but hard to acc...
John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. The Work We here enter on the second portion of the first main division of the Gospel, thus subdivided: The Work (1) among _Jews_, (2) among _Samaritans_, (3) among _Galilean...
ΤΩ͂Ν ΜΑΘΗΤΩ͂Ν. The more numerous and somewhat shifting company out of which He had chosen the Twelve. ΣΚΛΗΡΌΣ. Not hard to understand, but hard to accept: σκληρός (σκέλλω) means originally ‘dry’ and s...
OPPOSITE RESULTS OF THE DISCOURSE...
par Ver 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 to them,...
_TEACHING ABOUT THE BREAD OF LIFE -- JOHN 6:22-65:_ On the next day the multitude realized that Jesus was gone and they went to find Him. The people asked Jesus how or when He got to Capernaum. Jesus...
ΣΚΛΗΡΌΣ (G4642) сухой, грубый, суровый. ΆΚΟΎΕΙΝ _praes. act. inf. от_ ΆΚΟΎΩ (G191). "Слушать и оценивать" (Morris). _Inf._ в роли дополнения гл. ΔΎΝΑΤΑΙ....
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 have obt...
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 were not r...
THE BREAD OF LIFE, EXPLAINED _Text 6:60-65_ 60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they heard this, said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it? 61 But Jesus knowing in himself that his discip...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 6:60-71 The following is submitted as an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us: It is indeed pathetic to find that here in Galilee Christ met with no...
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 circle of...
56 Just as Nicodemus failed to see the figure when our Lord spoke to him about the new birth, so now His followers fail to understand when He speaks of feeding on His flesh and blood. There is a subtl...
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 Jerusal...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 6 JESUS FEEDS 5000 MEN AND THEIR FAMILIES 6:1-15 V1 After this, Jesus went across Lake *Galilee. (Lake *Galilee was cal...
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 Apostles...
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 thi...
_The crisis in Galilee_....
Πολλοὶ οὖν … ἀκούειν; many of His disciples [_i.e._, of the larger and more loosely attached circle of His followers, as distinct from the Twelve, John 6:67] having heard the foregoing utterances, sai...
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 making Him...
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 to...
(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: theref...
CHAPTER 33 PUZZLE OF THE MULTITUDE John 6:22-71. _“On the following day the multitude, standing beyond the sea, saw that there was no other ship except one, and that Jesus did not go along with His d...
II. THE DISCOURSES: JOHN 6:22-65. This section contains, first an historical introduction (John 6:22-24), then a series of conversations and discourses (John 6:25-65)....
VER. 60. “ _After having heard him speak thus, many of his disciples said. This saying is a hard one; who can listen to it?_ ” According to _de Wette_ and _Meyer_, this exclamation relates to the idea...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 60-65. The very difficulty in the way of understanding, which has just been referred to, caused the division between the temporary and permanent disciples...
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 thi...
The opening verses (John 1:1-18) introduce the most glorious subject which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the most glorious in point of theme, but in the profoundest point...
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 stones to...
In chapter 6, then, it is the Lord come down from heaven, humbled and put to death, not now as the Son of God, one with the Father, the source of life; but as He who, although He was Jehovah and at th...
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 baptized...
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 tha...
_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 to...
HIS DISCIPLES; disciples is here used in a general sense, for those who attended on his teaching....
THE OFFENSE OF MANY DISCIPLES. The disciples murmur:...
MANY; THEREFORE, OF HIS DISCIPLES, WHEN THEY HAD HEARD THIS, SAID, THIS IS AN HARD SAYING; WHO CAN HEAR IT?...
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, available...
60-65 The human nature of Christ had not before been in heaven, but being God and man, that wondrous Person was truly said to have come down from heaven. The Messiah's kingdom was not of this world;...
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 himsel...
John 6:60 Therefore G3767 many G4183 of G1537 His G846 disciples G3101 heard G191 (G5660) said G2036 ...
THE DISCIPLES MUST NOW FACE UP TO WHO HE IS (JOHN 6:60). The discourse began with the challenge to the crowds. It then moved on to the challenge to the Judaisers. Now it becomes a challenge to the di...
‘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 cons...
John 6:60. MANY THEREFORE OF HIS DISCIPLES WHEN THEY HEARD THIS SAID, THIS IS AN HARD SAYING; WHO CAN HEAR HIM? The word ‘disciples' is here used in a wide sense, including many more than the Twelve,...
In the miracle of the multiplying of the bread Jesus has symbolically presented Himself as the true bread of life. This thought is now unfolded in the various discourses with which the remainder of th...
A HARD SAYING (σκληρος). "This saying is a hard one." Old adjective, rough, harsh, dried hard (from σκελλω, to dry), probably the last saying of Jesus that he was the bread of life come down from h...
We shall read tonight part of that blessed sixth chapter of John's Gospel, beginning at the forty-first verse. John 6:41. _The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came do...
John 6:41. _The Jews then murmured at him,_ That is, at the Christ, John 6:41. _Because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whos...
John 6:41. The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it t...
John 6:41. _The Jews then murmured at him,_ That is, at our blessed Lord: «The Jews then murmured at him,» John 6:41. Because he said, I am the bread which came down from heavens. And they said, Is...
CONTENTS: Feeding the 5000. Walking on the sea. Discourse on the Bread of Life. Peter's confession of faith. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, disciples, boy, Moses, Joseph. CONCLUSION: Jesus Christ, the true...
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. Ch...
THIS TEACHING IS TOO HARD. About eating and drinking his flesh and blood. They wanted the glory of raising an army to fight the Romans. Even as Jesus got ready to go up to heaven, the disciples still...
_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 unquestionably...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 6:60 It was a HARD SAYING because they wrongly interpreted Jesus’ statements in a literal way. ⇐...
CHAPTER 6 VER. 1. _After this_, &c. Tiberias is here named, because the desert in which Christ fed the five thousand was near to Tiberias. _After this_, not immediately, but almost a year afterwards....
VER. 59. _This is the bread_, &c. He intimates the same thing which I have said at the end of the foregoing verse. For Christ came down from heaven not as man, but as God. Wherefore he who eateth Him...
_This spake He,_ &c. Christ taught these things, not in secret, not in a corner, but publicly in the synagogue in the presence of the Scribes, the Priests, and the whole people who had flocked togethe...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 6:22. 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 present when...
EXPOSITION JOHN 6:1 2. _Christ declares himself to be the Sustainer and Protector of the life of which he is the Source_. JOHN 6:1 (1) _The supply of human wants illustrated by a well known _"_si...
Now we have an indeterminate rate of time. Jesus was in Jerusalem when He was saying these things, they were as a result of this blind man...or the lame man, rather, who was healed there at the pool o...
2 Peter 3:16; Hebrews 5:11; John 6:41; John 6:42; John 6:66;...
Hard [σ κ λ η ρ ο ς]. See on Matthew 25:24; Jude 1:14. According to the Greek order, hard is this saying. Hear it [α υ τ ο υ α κ ο υ ε ι ν]. Aujtou may be rendered Him, but this is not probable. Hear...
The foregoing doctrine of our Saviour concerning eating his flesh and drinking his blood, sounded so very harshly, that not only the common multitude, but some of them that had been his disciples, tha...