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Commentaries on Mark 6:53

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

And when they had passed over,.... The lake of Gennesaret, or sea of "Galilee", they came into the land of Gennesaret; [See comments on Matthew 14:34]; to Capernaum, as appears from John 6:17 for Capernaum was in the land of Gennesaret; to which agrees what Josephus says, that the land of Gennesaret was watered with a very excellent spring, which the inhabitants of that place called Capernaum...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

A great variety of observable passages we have, in this chapter, concerning our Lord Jesus, the substance of all which we had before in Matthew, but divers circumstances we have, which we did not there meet with. Here is, I. Christ contemned by his countrymen, because he was one of them, and they knew, or thought they knew, his original, ver. 1-6. II. The just power he gave his apostles over...