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Joh 6:52. Ἐμάχοντο, began to strive) They now did not merely murmur, as at Joh 6:41.-οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι, the Jews) The successive steps are to be observed: the Jews, in this place; the disciples, Joh 6:60; Joh 6:66, “This is a hard saying; who can hear it?-Many-went back and walked no more with Him;” the apostles, Joh 6:67, [Jesus to the Twelve] “Will ye also go away?”-πῶς, how) The How they repeat here again: comp. Joh 6:42, “How is it that He saith, I came down from heaven?” To neither the one nor the other how does Jesus reply, but proceeds with His own discourse, and saith, Thus it must be: Joh 6:53, “Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, etc., ye have no life in you.”-τὴν σάρκα, the flesh) Again they fasten on that statement, as being the one which seemed to them especially hard.