John 6:1-4

After these things The history of between ten and eleven months is to be here supplied from the other evangelists; Jesus went over the sea of Galilee Luke tells us (Luke 9:10) he went with his disciples into a desert belonging to Bethsaida: of the reason of which, see notes on Matthew 14:13; Mark 6:30. And a great multitude followed him Eagerly desiring to hear so divine a teacher; because they saw his miracles, wrought on them that were diseased And were struck with the power and goodness which he manifested in performing them. And Jesus went up into a mountain That he might be heard and seen with the greater advantage; and there he sat with his disciples And the multitude about him. And the passover was nigh This circumstance, together with the observation made John 6:10, that there was much grass in the place, shows that the spring was now far advanced, and therefore determines the time of the following miracle with sufficient precision.