John 6:42 And they said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How is it then that He says, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
Have you ever listened to how a crowd can get out of control when they hear a few murmurings about something wrong?
It does not take too much to set a crowd out of control and start a riot or worse!
These people knew Jesus as a little boy and now they were questioning everything just because they thought they knew the truth.
What they were not taking into account was God’s initial prophesies about how the Messiah would come and in what form.