on the other side of the sea This now means the western shore; in John 6:22 it meant the eastern. From John 6:59 we have the locality fixed very distinctly as the synagogue at Capernaum.

when camest thou Including how?they suspect something miraculous. Christ does not gratify their curiosity: if the feeding of the 5000, which they had witnessed, taught them nothing, what good would it do them to hear of the crossing of the sea? -Camest Thou hither" is literally -hast Thou come to be here:" comp. John 1:15.

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