John 6:66

Many Disciples Desert Jesus

⁶⁵ So He continued, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me, unless it is granted to him by my Father." ⁶⁶ As a result of this many of His disciples turned their backs on Him and stopped accompanying Him. ⁶⁷ So Jesus said to the Twelve, "You too do not want to go back, do you?"

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John 6:60

So many of His disciples, when they heard it, said, "This teaching is hard to take in. Who can listen to it?"

Matthew 12:40-45

For as Jonah was in the whale's stomach for three days and nights, the Son of Man will be three days and nights in the heart of the earth.

Matthew 13:20-21

And what was sown upon the thin rocky soil illustrates the man who hears the message and bubbling over with joy at once accepts it,

Matthew 19:22

And when the young man heard that, he went away in deep distress, for he owned a great deal of property.

Matthew 21:8-11

And most of the crowd spread their coats along the road, but some were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them along the road.

Matthew 27:20-25

But the high priests and the elders lined up the crowds to ask for Barabbas, and to have Jesus put to death.

Luke 9:62

Jesus said to him, "No one who puts his hand to the plow, and then continues to look back, is fitted for service in the kingdom of God."

John 6:64

But there are some of you who do not trust in me." For Jesus knew from the start who they were that did not trust in Him, and who it was that was going to betray Him.

John 8:31

So Jesus said to the Jews who believed in Him, "If you live in accordance with what I teach, you are really my disciples,

2 Timothy 1:15

You know that everyone here who belongs to the Roman province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.

2 Timothy 4:10

for Demas has forsaken me because he loved the present world, and has gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia;

Hebrews 10:38

Meantime, my righteous servant will live by faith. But if a man draws back, my soul has no delight in him."

2 Peter 2:20-22

For if, after men have escaped the corrupting ways of the world through a full knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they again become entangled in them and are conquered by them, then their last condition is worse than their former one.

1 John 2:19

They have gone out from our own number, but they did not really belong to us; for if they had, they would have stayed with us. It was to show that none of those who went out really belonged to us.