Accept the Difficult Statements of Jesus

Note from today’s Bible reading: John 6

When Jesus taught in the synagogue in Capernaum, many disciples said, “This is a difficult statement; who can listen to it?” (John 6:59-60). What was it that was so “difficult” in Jesus’ teaching? Did He teach something that was hard to understand, or just hard to accept?

Through most of the chapter, Jesus was explaining that He was “the bread of life” (…