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However boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.
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Commentators explain that this verse is a parenthetical note solving a narrative puzzle. The crowd knew Jesus didn't leave with the disciples in the only boat available the night before. John includes this detail to show that new boats arrived from Tiberias, providing the crowd with the transportation needed to follow Jesus to Capernaum.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
There came other boats. This was after the disciples had departed. This detail is added because, from what follows, it appears that they s…
Howbeit (αλλα). Verse 23 is really an explanatory parenthesis in this long sentence. Tiberias, capital of Herod Antipas, diagonall…
19th Century
Anglican
Howbeit there came other boats.—This is a parenthesis to explain the fact that while on the previous evening they saw onl…
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Baptist
The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save that one whereinto h…
The people knew that the disciples had used the only boat that was available and that Jesus had not departed with the disciples. They were interest…
16th Century
Protestant
Near the place where they had eaten bread. The meaning of the words is doubtful; for they may be explained, either that Tiberias was n…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias A city by the sea side, built by Herod, and called so in honour of Tibe…
Instead of answering their inquiry about how He came there, Jesus criticized their asking. The utmost earnestness should be employed in seeking sal…
13th Century
Catholic
After describing how the disciples searched for Christ, the Evangelist now shows the people looking for him.
First, he states thei…
