John 6:66

Many Disciples Desert Jesus

⁶⁵ And he added: "This is why I told you that no one can come to me, unless enabled by the Father." ⁶⁶ After this many of his disciples drew back, and did not go about with him any longer. ⁶⁷ So Jesus said to the Twelve: "Do you also wish to leave me?"

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John 6:60

On hearing it, many of his disciples said: "This is harsh doctrine! Who can bear to listen to it?"

Matthew 12:40-45

For, just as 'Jonah was inside the sea-monster three days and three nights,' so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Matthew 13:20-21

By the seed which was sown on rocky places is meant the man who hears the Message, and at once accepts it joyfully;

Matthew 19:22

On hearing these words, the young man went away distressed, for he had great possessions.

Matthew 21:8-11

The immense crowd of people spread their cloaks in the road, while some cut branches off the trees, and spread them on the road.

Matthew 27:20-25

But the Chief Priests and the Councillors persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas, and to kill Jesus.

Luke 9:62

But Jesus answered: "No one who looks back, after putting his hand to the plough, is fitted for the Kingdom of God."

John 6:64

Yet there are some of you who do not believe in me." For Jesus knew from the first who they were that did not believe in him, and who it was that would betray him;

John 8:31

So Jesus went on to say to those Jews who had believed him: "If you remain constant to my Message, you are truly my disciples;

2 Timothy 1:15

You know, of course, that all our friends in Roman Asia turned their backs on me, and among them Phygellus and Hermogenes.

2 Timothy 4:10

for Demas, in his love for the world, has deserted me. He has gone to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

Hebrews 10:38

And through faith the Righteous man shall find his Life, But, if a man draws back, my heart can find no pleasure in him.'

2 Peter 2:20-22

If, after having escaped the polluting influences of the world, through knowing our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, men are again entangled in them, and give way to them, their last state has become worse than their first.

1 John 2:19

From us, it is true, they went out, but they had never belonged to us; for, if they had belonged to us, they would have remained among us. They left us that it might be made clear that they do not, any of them, belong to us.