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Strove (emachonto). Imperfect (inchoative) middle of machomai, to fight in armed combat (Act 7:26), then to wage a war of words as here and 2Ti 2:24. They were already murmuring (Joh 6:41), now they began bitter strife with one another over the last words of Jesus (Joh 6:43-51), some probably seeing a spiritual meaning in them. There was division of opinion about Jesus in Jerusalem also later (Joh 7:12, Joh 7:40; Joh 9:16; Joh 10:19).
How can? (Pōs dunatai). The very idiom used by Nicodemus in Joh 3:4, Joh 3:9. Here scornful disbelief.
This man (houtos). Contemptuous use pictured in Joh 6:42.
His flesh to eat (tēn sarka autou phagein). As if we were cannibals! Some MSS. do not have autou, but the meaning is clear. The mystical appropriation of Christ by the believer (Gal 2:20; Eph 3:17) they could not comprehend, though some apparently were against this literal interpretation of “flesh” (sarx).