New Testament says they were 'fighting'. Wycliffe used the words 'grutched' or 'grumbled'; the word in was "constantly used in the Septuagint of the murmuring of Israel in the wilderness". John Gill's commentaries highlight the Jews' consistency: they grumbled "for want of bread" in the desert, and they grumbled about Jesus' teaching "when they found that he spoke of himself as the true bread, the bread of God, and bread of life". For Jesus' disciples, His teaching was challenging. The Disciples' Literal New Testament regards it as "not hard to understand, but hard to accept, offensive, harsh, objectionable". Jesus' claim to "have come down from heaven" is dismissed on the basis of local knowledge of Jesus and his parents: The Pulpit Commentary notes that the evangelist does not here make reference to the virgin birth or the synoptic gospels' accounts of the conception and birth of Jesus: Nor does John's account make reference to the brothers of Jesus, unlike comparable sections of the synoptic gospels: Many disciples turn away Verse 59 These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. Verse 59 implies a break in the narrative: the preceding verses represent Jesus' teaching to the Jewish community in the Capernaum synagogue, whereas the following verses portray His private discussions with the disciples struggling to grasp the meaning of His teaching. These followers were "the disciples in the wider sense; those who more or less fully were accepting His teaching, and were regarded as His followers" but they reaction was now to think: This teaching was "not merely harsh, but insufferable", Theologian Albert Barnes commented that "The word 'hard' here means 'offensive, disagreeable' – that which they could not bear. Some have understood it to mean 'difficult to be understood', but this meaning does not suit the connection. The doctrine which he delivered was opposed to their prejudices; it seemed to be absurd, and they therefore rejected it." Jesus' response, "Does this offend you? What then if you should see the Son of Man ascend where He was before? () could be interpreted as: or it could mean William Robertson Nicoll suggests that "the second interpretation gives the better sense: you will find it easier to believe I came down from heaven, when you see me returning thither". In John's Gospel, Jesus' ascension "to where he was before" takes place through His death and resurrection: the Ascension