“To whom shall we go?” they ask. There is pathos in the unspoken. They do not say, “of course not, we have found all the answers right here,” because Christ’s words do not elicit peace but perplexity; they leave His apostles unsettled as well. The apostles do not say, “Why would we leave?” They do not reply by affirming their testimony of the difficult doctrines that have caused the fainthearted to flee. They are just as shaken as the others by what they have heard. They affirm their faith in Jesus in spite of, not because of, the hardness of the way, the disequilibrium His indecipherable
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