From that [time] many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more.

Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, "If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed.

The Jews then complained about 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 then that He says, 'I have come down from heaven'?"

"Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.

"And blessed is he who is not offended because of Me."

of whom we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.

as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable [people] twist to their own destruction, as [they do] also the rest of the Scriptures.