John 6:52 {53}
Good News Translation
This started an angry argument among them. "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" they asked.

New Revised Standard Version
The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

Contemporary English Version
They started arguing with each other and asked, "How can he give us his flesh to eat?"

New American Bible
The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us [his] flesh to eat?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying: How can this man give us his flesh to eat?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying: How can this man give us his flesh to eat?

strove.

John 6:41 The Jews therefore murmured at him, because he had said: I am the living bread which came down from heaven.

John 7:40-43 Of that multitude therefore, when they had heard these words of his, some said: This is the prophet indeed. . . .

John 9:16 Some therefore of the Pharisees said: This man is not of God, who keepeth not the sabbath. But others said: How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.

John 10:19 A dissension rose again among the Jews for these words.

How.

John 3:4,9 Nicodemus saith to him: How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born again? . . .

John 4:11 The woman saith to him: Sir, thou hast nothing wherein to draw, and the well is deep. From whence then hast thou living water?

Acts 17:32 And when they had heard of the resurrection of the dead, some indeed mocked. But others said: We will hear thee again concerning this matter.

1 Corinthians 2:14 But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the Spirit of God. For it is foolishness to him: and he cannot understand, because it is spiritually examined.

Context
Jesus the Bread of Life
51I am the living bread which came down from heaven. [52] If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world. 52The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying: How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 53Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen, I say unto you: except you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you.…
Cross References
John 1:19
And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites to him, to ask him: Who art thou?

John 6:41
The Jews therefore murmured at him, because he had said: I am the living bread which came down from heaven.

John 6:60
Many therefore of his disciples, hearing it, said: This saying is hard; and who can hear it?

John 9:16
Some therefore of the Pharisees said: This man is not of God, who keepeth not the sabbath. But others said: How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.

John 10:19
A dissension rose again among the Jews for these words.

John 6:51
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