Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

Mark 6:45

εὐθὺς : no time to lose; it was getting late. ἠνάγκασε, vide on Mt. εἰς τὸ πέραν : we are apt to take this as a matter of course as = to the other (western) side of the lake, and consequently to assume that πρὸς Βηθσαϊδάν points to a Bethsaida there, distinct from Bethsaida Julias (John 1:44). But the expression εἰς τ. π. may mean from the south end of the plain El Batiha, on the eastern side, to the north end towards Bethsaida Julias, the rendezvous for the night. In that case the contrary wind which overtook the disciples would be the prevailing wind from the north-east, driving them in an opposite direction away from Bethsaida towards the western shore. This is the view advocated by Furrer. vide Zeitschrift des Palästina-Vereins, B. ii. (1879). Holtz., H. C., thinks that either this view must be adopted or the true reading in the clause referring to B. must be that represented in some Latin copies: “trans fretum a Bedsaida,” C. Veron.; “ a Bethsaida,” C. Monac.

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