John 6:60

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Many therefore of his disciples, when the heard [this], said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Πολλοὶ οὖν ἀκούσαντες ἐκ τῶν μαθητῶν αὐτοῦ, εἶπον, Σκληρός ἐστιν οὗτος ὁ λόγος· τίς δύναται αὐτοῦ ἀκούειν;

Transliteration

Many oun having akousantes from the mathētōn of him, eipon, Sklēros estin this the logos; who dynatai of it akouein?

Grammar Details

*oun*: inferential conjunction - therefore/then
*akousantes*: aorist active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - having heard
*mathētōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - of disciples
*eipon*: aorist active indicative, 3rd plural - said
*Sklēros*: adjective, nominative, masculine, singular - hard/difficult
*estin*: present indicative, 3rd singular - is
*logos*: nominative, masculine, singular - word/saying
*dynatai*: present middle indicative, 3rd singular - is able
*akouein*: present active infinitive - to hear

Word Meanings

*oun*: therefore/then/consequently
*akousantes*: having heard/listened to
*mathētōn*: disciples/students/followers
*eipon*: said/spoke
*Sklēros*: hard/difficult/harsh
*estin*: is/exists
*logos*: word/saying/message
*dynatai*: is able/can
*akouein*: to hear/to listen to

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Heb 5:11 : 11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard of interpretation, seeing ye are become dull of hearing.
2 Pet 3:16 : 16 as also in all [his] epistles, speaking in them of these things; wherein {G1722} are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstedfast wrest, as [they do] also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Matt 11:6 : 6 And blessed is he, whosoever shall find no occasion of stumbling in me.
John 6:41-42 : 41 The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, I am the bread which came down out of heaven. 42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how {G3767} doth he now say, I am come down out of heaven?

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