John 6:66

Many Disciples Desert Jesus

⁶⁵ And he said, "Because of this I said to you that no one can come to me unless it has been granted to him by the Father." ⁶⁶ For this [reason] many of his disciples {drew back} and were not walking with him any longer. ⁶⁷ So Jesus said to the twelve, "You do not want to go away also, [do you]?"

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John 6:60

Thus many of his disciples, [when they] heard [it], said, "This saying is hard! Who can understand it?"

Zephaniah 1:6

and those who turned back from {following} Yahweh, and who did not seek Yahweh, and did not inquire of him."

Matthew 12:40-45

For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

Matthew 13:20-21

And what was sown on the rocky ground--this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.

Matthew 19:22

But [when] the young man heard the statement, he went away sorrowful, because he was one who had many possessions.

Matthew 21:8-11

And a very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading [them] on the road.

Matthew 27:20-25

But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds that they should ask for Barabbas and put Jesus to death.

Luke 9:62

But Jesus said, "No one who puts [his] hand on the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God!"

John 6:64

But there are some of you who do not believe." (For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)

John 8:31

Then Jesus said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you continue in my word you are truly my disciples,

2 Timothy 1:15

You know this, that all those in Asia turned away from me, among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

2 Timothy 4:10

For Demas deserted me, [because he] loved the present age, and went to Thessalonica. Crescens [went] to Galatia; Titus [went] to Dalmatia.

Hebrews 10:38

But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul is not well pleased with him."

2 Peter 2:20-22

For if, [after they] have escaped from the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and they are again entangled in these [things] [and] succumb to [them], the last [state] has become worse for them than the first.

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us. But [they went out], in order that it might be shown that all of them are not of us.