Then what will happen if you see the Son of Man ascend to where He was before?
Verse 62. What and if, &c. Jesus does not say that those who were then present would see him ascend, but he implies that he would ascend. They had taken offence because he said he came down from heaven. Instead of explaining that away, he proceeds to state another doctrine quite as offensive to them--that he would reascend to heaven. The apostles only were present at his ascension, .
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
62. What if you shall see the Son of man ascend to where he was before? The mean and despicable condition of Christ which they saw before their eyes, while, clothed with flesh, he was not at all different from other men, prevented them from submitting to his Divine power; but now — by withdrawing, as it were, the veil — he calls them to...