Mark 6:53

Miracles of Healing in the Land of Gennesaret

53. the land of Gennesaretis only mentioned here and in Matthew 14:34. It is the same as the modern el-Ghuweir, a fertile crescent-shaped plain, on the north-western shore of the Lake of Gennesaret, about 3 miles in length and 1 in width. From its sheltered situation, and especially from its depression of more than 500 feet below the level of the ocean, its climate is of an almost tropical character. Josephus speaks of it as if it were an earthly paradise, in which every kind of useful plant grew and flourished. Jos. B. J. III. 10. 8.

drew to the shore or, as Tyndale and Cranmer translate it, "drew up into the haven."