John 6:59-60
King James Version
59 These things said he in the synagogue,
as he taught in Capernaum.
60 Many therefore of his disciples,
when they had heard this, said,
This is an hard saying; who can hear it?
JESUS was a TRUE revolutionary.
He rocked many boats.
Ever heard the saying, "a rock and a hard place"?
Consider it a metaphor for what this post will reveal.
Unless you are born again, taught by SPIRIT to understand Scripture, you will not be able to comprehend His hard sayings.
Such as:
John 6:41-42
King James Version
41 The Jews then murmured at him,
because he said,
I am the bread which came down from heaven.
42 And they said,
Is not this Jesus,
the son of Joseph,
whose father and mother we know?
how is it then that he saith,
I came down from heaven?
John 6:45-46
King James Version
45 It is written in the prophets,
And they shall be all taught of God.
Every man therefore that hath heard,
and hath learned of the Father,
cometh unto me.
46 Not that any man hath seen the Father,
save he which is of God,
he hath seen the Father.
John 6:47
King James Version
47 Verily, verily, I say unto you,
He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
John 6:48-50
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48 I am that bread of life.
49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness,
and are dead.
50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven,
that a man may eat thereof,
and not die.
John 6:51-52
King James Version
51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven:
if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever:
and the bread that I will give is my flesh,
which I will give for the life of the world.
52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves,
saying,
How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
John 6:53-56
King James Version
53 Then Jesus said unto them,
Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man,
and drink his blood,
ye have no life in you.
54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood,
hath eternal life;
and I will raise him up at the last day.
55 For my flesh is meat indeed,
and my blood is drink indeed.
56 He that eateth my flesh,
and drinketh my blood,
dwelleth in me,
and I in him.
John 6:57-59
King James Version
57 As the living Father hath sent me,
and I live by the Father:
so he that eateth me,
even he shall live by me.
58 This is that bread which came down from heaven:
not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead:
he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
59 These things said he in the synagogue,
as he taught in Capernaum.
John 6:61-63
King James Version
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.
John 6:64-65
King James Version
64 But there are some of you that believe not.
For Jesus knew from the beginning
who they were that believed not,
and who should betray him.
65 And he said,
Therefore said I unto you,
that no man can come unto me,
except it were given unto him of my Father.
The result?
(Note the numbers on the verse.)
John 6:66
King James Version
66 From that time many of his disciples went back,
and walked no more with him.
Another hard saying:
John 8:58
King James Version
58 Jesus said unto them,
Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Before Abraham was, I am.
The result?
John 8:59
King James Version
59 Then took they up stones to cast at him:
but Jesus hid himself,
and went out of the temple,
going through the midst of them,
and so passed by.
Another hard saying:
John 10:30
King James Version
30 I and my Father are one.
The result?
John 10:31-33
King James Version
31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
32 Jesus answered them,
Many good works have I shewed you from my Father;
for which of those works do ye stone me?
33 The Jews answered him,
saying,
For a good work we stone thee not;
but for blasphemy;
and because that thou, being a man,
makest thyself God.
Another hard saying:
John 14:6
King James Version
6 Jesus saith unto him,
I am the way, the truth, and the life:
no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Another hard saying:
John 8:24
King James Version
24 I said therefore unto you,
that ye shall die in your sins:
for if ye believe not that I am he,
ye shall die in your sins.
Another hard saying:
Luke 9:59-60
King James Version
59 And he said unto another,
Follow me.
But he said,
Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
60 Jesus said unto him,
Let the dead bury their dead:
but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.
More hard sayings:
Yes, these are hard sayings.
The Bible has 66 books on it.
And then again, JESUS is the ROCK.
Deuteronomy 32:4
King James Version
4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect:
for all his ways are judgment:
a God of truth and without iniquity,
just and right is he.
Psalm 118:22
King James Version
22 The stone which the builders refused
is become the head stone of the corner.
Matthew 7:24-25
King James Version
24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine,
and doeth them,
I will liken him unto a wise man,
which built his house upon a rock:
25 And the rain descended,
and the floods came,
and the winds blew,
and beat upon that house;
and it fell not:
for it was founded upon a rock.
1 Corinthians 3:11
King James Version
11 For other foundation can no man lay
than that is laid,
which is Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 10:4
King James Version
4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink:
for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them:
and that Rock was Christ.
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