Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
They murmur that His saying is hard, unwilling to ask Him humbly to explain it. If they had begged of Christ to declare this parable, He would have opened it to them; but they will not have His sayings explained, because they would lose their pretext for rejecting them.
AI summary
Commenting on John 6:60-71
Verse 68. Simon Peter answered him. With characteristic ardour and promptness. Peter was probably one of the oldest of the apostles, and it was his character to be first and most ardent in his professions. To whom shall we go? This implied their firm conviction that Jesus was the Messiah, and that he alone was able to save them.
Then Simon Peter--whose forwardness in this case was noble, and to the wounded spirit of His Lord doubtless very grateful. Lord, to whom, &c.--that is, "We cannot deny that we have been staggered as well as they, and seeing so many go away who, as we thought, might have been retained by teaching a little less hard to take in, our own endurance has been...