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Followed (ēkolouthei). Descriptive imperfect active, picturing the crowd, but without the details of the boat for Christ and the rapid race of the crowd on foot (Mar 6:32.; Mat 14:13.).
They beheld (etheōroun). Imperfect active of theōreō. They had been beholding the signs which Jesus had been doing (epoiei, imperfect again) for a long time (Joh 2:23), most of which John has not given (Mar 1:29.; Mar 2:1; Mar 3:1; Mar 6:5). The people were eager to hear Jesus again (Luk 9:11) and to get the benefit of his healing power “on them that were sick” (epi tōn asthenountōn, the weak or feeble, without strength, a privative and sthenos, strength).