John Calvin Commentary John 6:22

"On the morrow the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, save one, and that Jesus entered not with his disciples into the boat, but [that] his disciples went away alone" — John 6:22 (ASV)

Next day. Here the Evangelist relates circumstances from which the multitude might conclude that Christ had gone across by divine power.

There had been but one ship; they see it go away without Christ. The next day, ships come from other places, by which they are conveyed to Capernaum, and there they find Christ.

It follows that He must have been conveyed across in a miraculous manner.

There is an intricacy and apparent confusion (ἀνακόλουθον) in the words, but still their meaning is plain enough. For, in John 6:22, John says that there had been but one ship, that all saw it leave the shore and that place, and that Christ was not a passenger on it. And, in John 6:23, he adds that ships came from Tiberias, by which the multitude passed over—those who had remained on the shore, blockading, as it were, every outlet, so that Christ might not escape.