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JOHN CHAPTER 6
Joh_6:1-14 Christ feedeth five thousand men with five loaves and
two fishes.
Joh_6:15-21 He withdraweth himself from the people, who would
have made him a king, and walketh on the sea.
Joh_6:22-29 The multitude flocking to him, he reproveth their
carnal views, and requireth their faith in him whom
God hath sent.
Joh_6:30-59 They ask a sign like that of the manna in the
wilderness; he declareth himself to be the bread of
life from heaven, and that none can live but by
eating his flesh and drinking his blood.
Joh_6:60-65 Many of his disciples taking offence thereat, he
showeth his meaning to be spiritual.
Joh_6:66-71 Many leaving him, Peter in the name of the twelve
professes stedfast faith in him: Jesus pronounces
one of them to be a devil.
Some good time (some think near a year) after the passages in the former chapter Christ went over the lake of Galilee (for the Jews called all great collections of waters seas); it is also called the lake of Tiberias, and the lake of Gennesaret, Luk_5:1. These waters received their name from the whole province whose coast they washed, so they were called
the sea of Galilee; or the particular shore or cities they washed, so they are sometimes called
the sea of Tiberias, sometimes the lake of Gennesaret. It appeareth by Mar_6:31, that he went upon the apostles coming to give him an account of what they had done and taught.