John 6:60
Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?
KJV
Πολλοὶ οὖν ἀκούσαντες ἐκ τῶν μαθητῶν αὐτοῦ εἶπον· σκληρός ἐστιν ὁ λόγος οὗτος· τίς δύναται αὐτοῦ ἀκούειν;
Greek NT
Hæc dixit in synagoga docens, in Capharnaum.
Vulgate
Many therefore of his disciples, when they heardthis, said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it?
ASV
These things he said, teaching in the synagogue, in Capharnaum.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δύναμαι
dunamai
verb · 209×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
λόγος
logos
noun · 330×
μαθητής
mathetes
noun · 261×
οὖν
oun
conjunction · 489×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
πολύς
polus
adjective · 412×
σκληρός
skleros
adjective · 5×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
ἀκούω
akouo
verb · 427×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: ὁ λόγος οὗτος | WH/Treg/NIV: ὁ λόγος οὗτος | RP: οὗτος ὁ λόγος
- ὁ λόγος οὗτος — SBLGNT
- ὁ λόγος οὗτος — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- οὗτος ὁ λόγος — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§1336The first announcement of the Eucharist divided the disciples, just as the announcement of the Passion scandalized them: "This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?"158 The Eucharist and the Cross are stumbling blocks. It is the same mystery and it never ceases to be an occasion of division. "Will you also go away?":159 The Lord's question echoes through the ages, as a loving…
1. Whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame Philippians 3:19, said Paul of certain persons, writing to the Philippians. Now that the Jews were of this character is clear, both from what has gone before, and from what they came and said to Christ. For when He gave them bread, and filled their bellies, they said that He was a Prophet, and sought to make Him a K…
Chapter 24.—Of the One Only True Principle Which Alone Purifies and Renews Human Nature. Accordingly, when we speak of God, we do not affirm two or three principles, no more than we are at liberty to affirm two or three 195 gods; although, speaking of each, of the Father, or of the Son, or of the Holy Ghost, we confess that each is God: and yet we do not say, as the Sabellian h…
Cross-references
- John 3:9 — Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
- John 6:41 — The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.
- John 6:41 — The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.
- John 6:66 — From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
- John 6:66 — From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
- John 8:31 — Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
- John 8:43 — Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
- John 8:43 — Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
- John 14:22 — Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?
- Luke 7:23 — And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.
- Mark 6:3 — Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.
- Matt 11:6 — And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.
- Matt 11:6 — And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.
- Matt 24:10 — And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.