From that {time} many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

Why do ye not understand my speech? {even} because ye cannot hear my word.

Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, {then} are ye my disciples indeed;

And blessed is {he}, whosoever shall not be offended in me.

The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.

As also in all {his} epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as {they do} also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.

From that {time} many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

And blessed is {he}, whosoever shall not be offended in me.

Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?

Why do ye not understand my speech? {even} because ye cannot hear my word.

And blessed is {he}, whosoever shall not be offended in me.

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. {offended: scandalized in, or, by him}

The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.

And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?

Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?

What {manner of} saying is this that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find {me}: and where I am, {thither} ye cannot come?

For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air {have} nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay {his} head.

This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.

And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!