John 6:66 BSB — MannaFest

John 6:66

From that time on many of His disciples turned back and no longer walked with Him.

BSB

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ASV

Upon this many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

KJV

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

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Commentary

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Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Many of his disciples went back - They no longer associated with him, nor professed to acknowledge him as the Messiah. None of these were of the twelve. Christ had many others who generally attended his ministry, and acknowledged him for the Messiah.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1646: “A Home Question and a Right Answer” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1882)

BROTHERS AND SISTERS, we believe that the righteous shall hold on his way and he that has clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger. We also believe that he that believes in Christ "has everlasting life" and, consequently, must live forever. The living water which Christ gives a man shall be in him a well of water springing up unto everlasting life. Our Lord has said of His sheep that they shall never perish, neither shall any pluck them out of His hands.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: John (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1869)

These verses form a sorrowful conclusion to the famous discourse of Christ which occupies the greater part of the sixth chapter. They supply a melancholy proof of the hardness and corruption of man's heart. Even when the Son of God was the preacher, many seem to have heard in vain. Let us mark in this passage what an old sin apostasy is. We read that when our Lord had explained what He meant by "eating and drinking his flesh and blood,"—"After this, many of his disciples quit following him and did not accompany him any longer."

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἐκ	ek	From	G1537 →
τούτου	toutou	that [time]	G3778 →
πολλοὶ	polloi	many	G4183 →
ἐκ	ek	out of	G1537 →
τῶν	tōn	the	G3588 →
μαθητῶν	mathētōn	disciples	G3101 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	of Him	G846 →
ἀπῆλθον	apēlthon	went away	G565 →
εἰς	eis	to	G1519 →
τὰ	ta	the	G3588 →
ὀπίσω	opisō	back	G3694 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
οὐκέτι	ouketi	no longer	G3756 →G2089 →
μετ᾽	met᾽	with	G3326 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	Him	G846 →
περιεπάτουν.¶	periepatoun	were walking.	G4043 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Luke 9:62
Then Jesus declared, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
leads to
- Philippians 3:13
  Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
- Hebrews 10:38
  But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.”
- 2 Peter 2:20–22
  If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse…
- Luke 17:31–32
  On that day, let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve his possessions. Likewise, let no one in the field return for anything he has left behind.
- James 1:6–8
  But he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.
Through
John 8:31
So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples.
leads to
- 2 John 1:9
  Anyone who runs ahead without remaining in the teaching of Christ does not have God. Whoever remains in His teaching has both the Father and the Son.
- John 15:4–9
  Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me.
- 2 Timothy 3:14
  But as for you, continue in the things you have learned and firmly believed, since you know from whom you have learned them.