And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships.
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Gill's Exposition
And they feared exceedingly,.... That is, the men in the ship, the mariners to whom the ship belonged, and who had the management of it:
and said to one another, as persons in the greatest…
See the notes at Mat 8:18-27. Mar 4:36 Even as he was in the ship - They took him without making any preparation for the voyage; without providing any food or raiment. He was sitting in a ship, or…
Adam Clarke
They took him even as he was in the ship - That is, the disciples; he was now εν τῳ πλοιῳ, in the boat, i.e. his own boat which usually waited on him, and out of which it appears he was then…
This miracle which Christ wrought for the relief of his disciples, in stilling the storm, we had before (Mat 8:23, etc.); but it is here more fully related. Observe,
1. It was the same day that he had…
Cambridge Bible
as he was i. e. without any preparation for the voyage. Just before the boat put off three of the listeners to His words desired to attach themselves to Him as His disciples, (1) a scribe, (2) an…