But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judaea,
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Gill's Exposition
But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea,.... Knowing their evil designs against him, he departed out of the synagogue, and city of Capernaum; and taking his disciples with him, he…
To the sea - The Sea of Galilee, or to the lonely regions which surrounded the sea, where he might be in obscurity, and avoid their designs against his life. His time had not yet come, and he…
Here, as before, we have our Lord Jesus busy at work in the synagogue first, and then by the sea side; to teach us that his presence should not be confined either to the one or to the other, but,…
Cambridge Bible
Withdrawal of Jesus to the Lake of Gennesaret
7. a great multitude Observe the wide area from which the multitude were now gathered together; the region (1) of Tyre and Sidon and Galilee in the North…
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