John 6:52

Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus ¹  began to argue with one another, ²  “How can this man ³  give us his flesh to eat?”

Joh 3:4,9; Joh 4:11; Joh 6:41; Joh 7:40-43; Joh 9:16; Joh 10:19; Ac 17:32; 1Co 2:14

¹ tn Grk “Then the Jews began to argue.” Here the translation restricts the phrase to those Jews who were hostile to Jesus (cf. BDAG 479 s.v. ᾿Ιουδαῖος 2.e.β), since the “crowd” mentioned in 6:22-24 was almost all Jewish (as suggested by their addressing Jesus as “Rabbi” (6:25). See also the note on the phrase “the Jews who were hostile to Jesus” in v. 41.

² tn Grk “with one another, saying.”

³ tn Grk “this one,” “this person.”