John 6:59
57 Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.
58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your fathers, who ate the manna and died, the one who eats this bread will live forever.”
Jesus said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
60 On hearing it, many of His disciples said, “This is a difficult teaching. Who can accept it?”
61 Aware that His disciples were grumbling about this teaching, Jesus asked them, “Does this offend you?
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Jesus said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
- KJV
- These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
- WEB
- He said these things in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
- ASV
- These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
- DARBY
- These things he said in [the] synagogue, teaching in Capernaum.
- BLB
- He said these things teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
- ÅB
- Dette sa han mens han lærte i en synagoge i Kapernaum.
- OTB
- Han uttrykte disse læresetningene mens han underviste i synagogen i Kapernaum.
- B1930
- Dette sa han mens han lærte i en synagoge i Kapernaum.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
John 6:24
So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor His disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum to look for Him.
Read in contextProverbs 1:20–23
Wisdom calls out in the street, she lifts her voice in the square;
Read in contextProverbs 8:1–3
Does not wisdom call out, and understanding raise her voice?
Read in contextLuke 4:31
Then He went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath He began to teach the people.
Read in contextPsalms 40:9–10
I proclaim righteousness in the great assembly; behold, I do not seal my lips, as You, O LORD, do know.
Read in contextJohn 18:20
“I have spoken openly to the world,” Jesus answered. “I always taught in the synagogues and at the temple, where all the Jews come together. I said nothing in secret.
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