Nicodemus said to Him, "How can a man be born, being old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?"

Nicodemus answered and said to Him, "How can these things be?"

Therefore the Jews were murmuring about Him, because He said, "I am the bread which came down from heaven."

Therefore the Jews were contending with one another, saying, "How can this Man give us His flesh to eat?"

Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying; who can hear it?"

The crowd answered Him, "We heard from the law that the Christ abides forever; and so how do You say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of Man?"

Then [some] of His disciples said to one another, "What is this that He says to us, 'A little [while] and you will not see Me; and again a little [while] and you will see Me'; and, 'I am going to the Father'?"

Therefore they said, "What is this that He says, 'A little [while]'? We do not understand what He is saying."

You will seek Me and you will not find [Me], and where I am you cannot come."

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.