On hearing it, many of His disciples said, “This is a difficult teaching. Who can accept it?”
Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard [this], said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? (13) The reason of man cannot comprehend the uniting of Christ and his members: therefore let it worship and revere that which is better than itself.
The foregoing doctrine of our Saviour concerning eating his flesh and drinking his blood, sounded so very harshly, that not only the common multitude, but some of them that had been his disciples, that is, who had given up their names to follow him, could not tell how to hear it.
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