John 6:66

66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

Ver. 66. Many of his disciples ] They stumbled at the word and fell backward. This is reckoned by St Peter a note of a reprobate, 1 Peter 2:8 . And indeed few sins are more dangerous than that of picking quarrels at God’s word, taking up weapons against it, and snuffing at it, Malachi 1:13 ; replying against it, Romans 9:19-20 ; casting reproaches upon it, Jeremiah 20:8-9 ; enviously swelling at it, Acts 13:45 ; gathering odious consequences from it, Romans 3:8 : such are in the ready road to apostasy, and so to perdition, Hebrews 10:39 .