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John 6:23
(howbeit there came other boats from Tiberius nigh unto the place where they did eat bread after that the Lord had given thanks;)
(howbeit there came other boats from Tiberius nigh unto the place where they did eat bread after that the Lord had given thanks;)
JOHN 6:23 a;lla h=lqen ploia,@ria# evk Tiberia,doj {C} Amid the multiplicity of variants, the text of î75, supported by several other widely scattered representative witnesses, was regarded by a majo...
Verse 23. _THERE CAME OTHER BOATS_] After Jesus and his disciples had departed. _FROM TIBERIAS_] Herod Antipas built this city near the lake of Genesaret, in the best parts of Galilee, and called it...
THERE CAME OTHER BOATS - After the disciples had departed. This is added because, from what follows, it appears that they supposed that he had entered one of those boats and gone to Capernaum after hi...
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The Feeding of the Five Thousand Men. (John 6:1 .)_ 2. The Attempt to Make Him King, (John 6:15 .) 3. The Stormy Sea. “It is I, be not afraid.” (John 6:16 .) 4. The Discourse on the...
AFTER THE MIRACLE: THE WALKING ON THE SEA. Though the details are obscure, Jn. gives the key to the situation by recording the dangerous enthusiasm of the crowds, as later on he shows the dangers whic...
THERE CAME OTHER BOATS FROM TIBERIAS. Tiberias was the largest city on the sea, built by Herod, and named after Tiberius Cæsar. Herod Antipas usually occupied it as his capital. It was. place the Lord...
On the next day, the crowd which was still standing on the far side of the sea, saw that there had been only one boat, and that Jesus had not gone into the boat with his disciples, but that the discip...
THE LOAVES AND FISHES (John 6:1-13)...
HOWBEIT. See note on "and we beheld", John 1:14. FROM. out from. Greek. _ek._ App-104. THE LORD. See App-98. B.C....
_Howbeit there came_ This awkward parenthesis explains how there came to be boats to transport the people to the western shore after they had given over seeking for Christ on the eastern. _after that...
The Sequel of the two Signs 22 24. We have here a complicated sentence very unusual in S. John (but comp. John 13:1-4); it betrays "a certain literary awkwardness, but great historical accuracy … The...
John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. The Work We here enter on the second portion of the first main division of the Gospel, thus subdivided: The Work (1) among _Jews_, (2) among _Samaritans_, (3) among _Galilean...
23. This awkward parenthesis explains how there came to be boats to transport the people to the western shore. ΕΥ̓ΧΑΡΙΣΤ. Unless the thanksgiving (John 6:11) was the turning-point of the miracle, it...
22–24. A complicated sentence very unusual in S. John (comp. John 13:1-4); but its very intricacy is evidence of its accuracy. A writer of fiction would have given fewer details and stated them with g...
THE SEQUEL OF THE TWO SIGNS The people had wished to make Jesus a Jewish king. He has just manifested Himself to His disciples as King of the whole realm of nature. The wrongheaded multitude, to whic...
par Ver 22. The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save that one whereinto his disciples were entered, and that Jesus we...
_TEACHING ABOUT THE BREAD OF LIFE -- JOHN 6:22-65:_ On the next day the multitude realized that Jesus was gone and they went to find Him. The people asked Jesus how or when He got to Capernaum. Jesus...
ΉΛΘΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064) идти; здесь в _знач._ "прибывать" ΈΦΑΓΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΣΘΊΩ (G2068) есть, ΕΎΧΑΡΙΣΤΉΣΑΝΤΟΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.), см._ John 6:11. _Gen. abs. Aor._...
THE DAY FOLLOWING, &C.— Notwithstanding Jesus had ordered the people to go home after he had sent his disciples away, they did not leave the desart mountain. It seems they took notice that no boat had...
THE MISTAKEN SEARCH _Text 6:22-29_ 22 On the morrow the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, save one, and that Jesus entered not with his disci...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 6:14-27 We begin with our customary Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— The opening verses of the passage before us contain the sequel to what is...
(Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks:) (HOWBEIT - adds the Evangelist, in a lively parenthesis. THERE C...
15 Exactly a year later (Joh_12:12-16) He presented Himself to them as their King. This effort to make Him King was premature and arose from the fact that they had not comprehended the significance of...
THE BREAD OF LIFE John 6:1 to John 7:1. Feeding the five thousand. Walking upon the sea. Discourse upon the bread of life. Defection of many disciples. The Apostles stand firm. Returning from Jerusal...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 6 JESUS FEEDS 5000 MEN AND THEIR FAMILIES 6:1-15 V1 After this, Jesus went across Lake *Galilee. (Lake *Galilee was cal...
HOWBEIT THERE CAME OTHER BOATS. — This is a parenthesis to explain the fact that while on the previous evening they saw only one boat, there were now several. The multitude came in part from the west...
CHAPTER 14 JESUS THE BREAD OF LIFE. John 6:1. In this chapter John follows the same method as in the last. He first relates the sign, and then gives our Lord's interpretation of it. As to the Samari...
John 6:22-24 form one sentence, in which John describes the observations made by the crowd the following morning and their consequent action. The observations they made are described under ἰδών, which...
_The immediate impression made by the miracle and the consequent movements of Jesus and the crowd_....
INSINCERE SEEKERS OF TRUTH John 6:22-29 The mention in John 6:23 of Christ's giving thanks, recalls the vivid impression made by that solemn act, and the great importance which those who witnessed it...
The whole chapter really records things resulting from the conflict recorded in the previous one. Having crossed the sea, Jesus first fed the multitude, and they, enamored of His ability, attempted to...
CHAPTER 33 PUZZLE OF THE MULTITUDE John 6:22-71. _“On the following day the multitude, standing beyond the sea, saw that there was no other ship except one, and that Jesus did not go along with His d...
“ _On the morrow, the multitude who stood on the other side of the sea and who had seen that there was no other boat there but one_, _that into which the disciples had entered, and that Jesus entered...
II. THE DISCOURSES: JOHN 6:22-65. This section contains, first an historical introduction (John 6:22-24), then a series of conversations and discourses (John 6:25-65)....
The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save that one whereinto his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went not with h...
The opening verses (John 1:1-18) introduce the most glorious subject which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the most glorious in point of theme, but in the profoundest point...
23._Near the place where they had eaten bread. _The meaning of the words is doubtful; for they may be explained, either that Tiberias was _near the place where _Christ had fed them with five loaves, o...
In chapter 6, then, it is the Lord come down from heaven, humbled and put to death, not now as the Son of God, one with the Father, the source of life; but as He who, although He was Jehovah and at th...
HOWBEIT THERE CAME OTHER BOATS FROM TIBERIAS,.... A city by the sea side, built by Herod, and called so in honour of Tiberius Caesar; though the Jews give a different etymology of it; they say, it is...
(Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks:) Ver. 23. _After that the Lord had given thanks_] _See Trapp on "_ Ma...
“In this and the two following verses,” says Dr. Campbell, “is contained a sentence more involved than any in this gospel. Indeed it is so unlike the composition of this evangelist, as to give ground...
THERE CAME OTHER BOATS; from the west side of the sea, after the disciples left....
FEEDING THE FIVE THOUSAND (vs.1-13) The setting here is no longer Jerusalem, but Galilee, and the contrast to the beginning of chapter 5 is striking. For here grace shines out beautifully, available...
22-27 Instead of answering the inquiry how he came there, Jesus blamed their asking. The utmost earnestness should be employed in seeking salvation, in the use of appointed means; yet it is to be soug...
Ver. 23,24. They also took shipping, made use of some other boats that were come over the water, and went over to seek Jesus; not out of any love to his person or doctrine, (as we shall anon hear), bu...
John 6:23 however G235 G1161 other G243 boats G4142 came G2064 (G5627) from G1537 Tiberias G5085 near...
‘On the next day the great crowd who stood on the other side of the sea, saw that there was no other boat except the one, and that Jesus did not enter the boat with his disciples, but that his discipl...
JESUS WALKS ON THE SEA OF GALILEE (JOHN 6:16). It is quite clear from the fact that this event follows immediately on the other that Jesus was now trying to bring home to His disciple His own uniquene...
John 6:23. HOWBEIT THERE CAME BOATS FROM TIBERIAS NIGH UNTO THE PLACE WHERE THEY DID EAT THE BREAD, AFTER THAT THE LORD HAD GIVEN THANKS. Whilst they were still in wonder and doubt, other boats came a...
In the miracle of the multiplying of the bread Jesus has symbolically presented Himself as the true bread of life. This thought is now unfolded in the various discourses with which the remainder of th...
HOWBEIT (αλλα). Verse 23 is really an explanatory parenthesis in this long sentence. Tiberias, capital of Herod Antipas, diagonally across the lake, is only mentioned in John in the N.T. (John 6:1;...
John 6:22. The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save that one whereinto his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went...
John 6:1. _After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias. And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were disease...
John 6:14. _Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world. When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come an...
John 6:22. The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save that one whereinto his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went...
CONTENTS: Feeding the 5000. Walking on the sea. Discourse on the Bread of Life. Peter's confession of faith. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, disciples, boy, Moses, Joseph. CONCLUSION: Jesus Christ, the true...
John 6:2. _A great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles._ But being dull of apprehension, they seemed to have no idea that the Lord could feed the hungry, as well as heal the sick. Ch...
OTHER BOATS, FROM TIBERIAS. Tiberias was the largest city on the lake. It was built by Herod, and named for Emperor Tiberias. Herod Antipas used it as the capital of Galilee....
_The day following_ JESUS THE BREAD OF LIFE I. OUR LORD’S AVOWAL OF HIS DIVINE NATURE AND HIS HEAVENLY ERRAND. More than thirty times in this one discourse does He use the personal pronouns “Me” and...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 6:23 CAPERNAUM is on the northwest edge of the Sea of Galilee. Several miles to the south is TIBERIAS, the largest city on the Sea....
CHAPTER 6 VER. 1. _After this_, &c. Tiberias is here named, because the desert in which Christ fed the five thousand was near to Tiberias. _After this_, not immediately, but almost a year afterwards....
_But there came_, &c. We can see from this verse that the place where Christ multiplied the loaves was near Tiberias, and therefore that those who sailed from thence to Bethsaida and Capharnaum must h...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 6:22. NONE OTHER BOAT, RATHER LITTLE SHIP (πλοιάριον).—The meaning of this long and complicated sentence is plain. A number of the crowd who had been present when...
EXPOSITION JOHN 6:1 2. _Christ declares himself to be the Sustainer and Protector of the life of which he is the Source_. JOHN 6:1 (1) _The supply of human wants illustrated by a well known _"_si...
Now we have an indeterminate rate of time. Jesus was in Jerusalem when He was saying these things, they were as a result of this blind man...or the lame man, rather, who was healed there at the pool o...
John 6:1; John 6:11; John 6:12; John 6:24...
Howbeit there came other boats [α λ λ α δ ε η λ θ ε ν π λ ο ι α ρ ι α]. Some editors omit de, howbeit, change alla, other, into ajlla, but, and read, but there came boats....