The people. — Better, the multitude. It is the same word which in John 6:5 is rendered “company.”

On the other side of the sea — i.e., on the eastern side. The writer’s starting-point is now Capernaum. In John 6:25 the same words mean the western side, the starting-point of the multitude being the scene of the miracle.

Save that one whereinto his disciples were entered. — Better, save one, with the best MSS. The addition has arisen from an explanatory gloss.

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