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

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

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

And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?

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.

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

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.