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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

And when they were come out of the ship,.... Christ and his disciples, and were ashore, straightway they knew him; that is, the men of that place, as in Mt. 14:35, [See comments on Matthew 14:35]; and so the Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions read here, "the inhabitants of that country", the country of Gennesaret; they knew him, having seen and heard him before.

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...