The people started grumbling about him, because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven."

Some of the people in the crowd heard him say this and said, "This man is really the Prophet!"

The scripture says that the Messiah will be a descendant of King David and will be born in Bethlehem, the town where David lived."

Some of the Pharisees said, "The man who did this cannot be from God, for he does not obey the Sabbath law." Others, however, said, "How could a man who is a sinner perform such miracles as these?" And there was a division among them.

Again there was a division among the people because of these words.

"How can a grown man be born again?" Nicodemus asked. "He certainly cannot enter his mother's womb and be born a second time!"

"How can this be?" asked Nicodemus.

"Sir," the woman said, "you don't have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where would you get that life-giving water?

When they heard Paul speak about a raising from death, some of them made fun of him, but others said, "We want to hear you speak about this again."

Whoever does not have the Spirit cannot receive the gifts that come from God's Spirit. Such a person really does not understand them, and they seem to be nonsense, because their value can be judged only on a spiritual basis.