Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
the flesh profiteth nothing—Much of His discourse was about "flesh"; but flesh as such, mere flesh, could profit nothing, much less impart that life which the Holy Spirit alone communicates to the soul.
the words that I speak . . . are spirit and . . . life—The whole burden of the discourse is "spirit," not mere flesh, and "life" in its highest, not its lowest sense, and the words I have employed are to be interpreted solely in that sense.
Many . . . of his disciples—His pretty constant followers, though an outer circle of them.
hard saying—not merely harsh, but insufferable, as the word often means in the Old Testament.
who can hear—submit to listen to it.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing John 6:63:
Song of Solomon 4:16
1 Corinthians 15:45
Titus 1:3
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