Knew him (επιγνοντες αυτον). Recognizing Jesus, knowing fully (επ) as nearly all did by now. Second aorist active participle.

they knew him. They recollected him, for he had been there before, and worked miracles.

And when they had passed over.—See Notes on Matthew 14:34-36.

Glossa Ordinaria: The Evangelist, having shown the danger the disciples had sustained in their passage and their deliverance f…

Jesus stayed with the disciples in the boat and crossed over with them to Gennesaret. Mark then summarizes the work of Jesus in Galilee before he w…

And when they were come out of the ship
Christ and his disciples, and were ashore,

immediately th…

The church is often like a ship at sea, tossed with tempests, and not comforted. We may have Christ for us, yet wind and tide can be again…