59. These things he said while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
60. Then many of his disciples who were listening said, “This saying is hard; who can accept it?”
61. Since Jesus knew that his disciples were murmuring about this, he said to them, “Does this shock you?
62. What if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?
63. It is the spirit that gives life, while the flesh is of no avail. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
64. But there are some of you who do not believe.” Jesus knew from the beginning the ones who would not believe and the one who would betray him.
65. And he said, “For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by my Father.”