We are at a point now where many disciples are turning away from Jesus. It is not just the hard-hearted people that are rejecting Jesus. Even disciples who have been following Jesus are turning away. Why these disciples turning away? What has happened to cause them to turn from following Jesus? We are going to look at John 6:60-71 and consider why these disciples are leaving and the warning it means for us so that we do not turn away from Jesus.

Reaction of the False Disciples (6:60-66)

Rather than inspecting their hearts and listening to Jesus’ call for a life bound up in him, the disciples complain even more. Please notice that those who are grumbling are not merely the Jews in the synagogue. It is his own disciples that cannot handle this teaching. They say among themselves, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?” (6:60). This phrase means that what they have heard is hard to tolerate, not that it is hard to understand…

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