63 Grk “Then the Jews.” In NT usage the term Ἰουδαῖοι (Ioudaioi) may refer to the entire Jewish people, the residents of Jerusalem and surrounding territory, the authorities in Jerusalem, or merely those who were hostile to Jesus. (For further information see R. G. Bratcher, “ ‘The Jews’ in the Gospel of John,” 26 [1975]: 401–9.) Here the translation restricts the phrase to those Jews who were hostile to Jesus (cf. Ἰουδαῖος 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). Likewise, the designation “Judeans” does not fit here because the location is Galilee rather than Judea.

In other versions

So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

Therefore the Jews started grumbling about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

Then the people began to murmur in disagreement because he had said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

Now the Jews began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven,”

The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.

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