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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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THE LOAVES AND FISHES (John 6:1-13)...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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OPPOSITE RESULTS OF THE DISCOURSE...
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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,...
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_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...
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ΣΚΛΗΡΌΣ (G4642) сухой, грубый, суровый.
ΆΚΟΎΕΙΝ _praes. act. inf. от_ ΆΚΟΎΩ (G191).
"Слушать и оценивать" (Morris). _Inf._ в роли
дополнения гл. ΔΎΝΑΤΑΙ....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_The crisis in Galilee_....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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)....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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HIS DISCIPLES; disciples is here used in a general sense, for those
who attended on his teaching....
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MANY; THEREFORE, OF HIS DISCIPLES, WHEN THEY HAD HEARD THIS, SAID,
THIS IS AN HARD SAYING; WHO CAN HEAR IT?...
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THE OFFENSE OF MANY DISCIPLES.
The disciples murmur:...
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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...
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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;...
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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...
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John 6:60 Therefore G3767 many G4183 of G1537 His G846 disciples G3101
heard G191 (G5660) said G2036 ...
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‘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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 6:60 It was a HARD SAYING because they wrongly
interpreted Jesus’ statements in a literal way.
⇐...
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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....
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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2 Peter 3:16; Hebrews 5:11; John 6:41; John 6:42; John 6:66;...
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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...
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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?...
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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...