John 6:1

CHAPTER VI.

Jesus passes the sea of Tiberias, and a great multitude follow

him, 1-4.

He feeds five thousand with five loaves, and two fishes,

5-13.

They acknowledge him to be the prophet that should come into

the world, 14.

They purpose to force him to become their king; and he withdraws

from the multitude, 15.

The disciples take ship, and go towards Capernaum, and are

overtaken with a storm, 16-18.

Christ comes to them, walking upon the water, 19-21.

The people take boats and follow him, 22-24.

He reproves their fleshly motives, 25-27.

They profess a desire to be instructed, 28.

Christ preaches to them, and shows them that he is the bread of

life, and that they who reject him are without excuse, 29-40.

They are offended, and cavil, 41, 42.

He asserts and illustrates his foregoing discourse, 43-51.

They again cavil, and Christ gives farther explanations, 52-59.

Several of the disciples are stumbled at his assertion, that

unless they ate his flesh and drank his blood they could not

have life, 60.

He shows them that his words are to be spiritually understood,

61-65.

Several of them withdraw from him, 66.

He questions the twelve, whether they also were disposed to

forsake him, and Peter answers for the whole, 67-69.

Christ exposes the perfidy of Judas, 70, 71.

NOTES ON CHAP. VI.

Verse John 6:1. After these things] This is a sort of indefinite expression, from which me can gather nothing relative to the time in which these things happened. It refers no doubt to transactions in the preceding year.

Jesus went over the sea of Galilee] Or, as some translate the words, by the side of the sea of Galilee. From Luke, Luke 9:10, we learn that this was a desert place in the vicinity of Bethsaida. The sea of Galilee, Genesaret, and Tiberias, are the same in the New Testament with the sea of Cinnereth in the Old. Tiberias was a city in Galilee, situated on the western side of the lake. Job 6:22, Job 6:22.