John 6:1 - The Feeding of the Five Thousand (2024)

New International Version
Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias),New Living Translation
After this, Jesus crossed over to the far side of the Sea of Galilee, also known as the Sea of Tiberias.English Standard Version
After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias.Berean Standard Bible
After this, Jesus crossed to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias).Berean Literal Bible
After these things Jesus went away, over the Sea of Galilee (of Tiberias),King James Bible
After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias.New King James Version
After these things Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias.New American Standard Bible
After these things Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (or Tiberias).NASB 1995
After these things Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (or Tiberias).NASB 1977
After these things Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (or Tiberias).Legacy Standard Bible
After these things Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (or Tiberias).Amplified Bible
After this, Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (or Sea of Tiberias).Christian Standard Bible
After this, Jesus crossed the Sea of Galilee (or Tiberias ).Holman Christian Standard Bible
After this, Jesus crossed the Sea of Galilee (or Tiberias).American Standard Version
After these things Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias.Aramaic Bible in Plain English
After these things, Yeshua went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, the Sea of Tiberias.Contemporary English Version
Jesus crossed Lake Galilee, which was also known as Lake Tiberias. Douay-Rheims Bible
AFTER these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is that of Tiberias. English Revised Version
After these things Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias.GOD'S WORD® Translation
Jesus later crossed to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (or the Sea of Tiberias).Good News Translation
After this, Jesus went across Lake Galilee (or, Lake Tiberias, as it is also called). International Standard Version
After this, Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (that is, to Tiberias). Literal Standard Version
After these things Jesus went away beyond the Sea of Galilee (of Tiberias),Majority Standard Bible
After this, Jesus crossed to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias).New American Bible
After this, Jesus went across the Sea of Galilee [of Tiberias].NET Bible
After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (also called the Sea of Tiberias).New Revised Standard Version
After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, also called the Sea of Tiberias.New Heart English Bible
After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias.Webster's Bible Translation
After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias.Weymouth New Testament
After this Jesus went away across the Lake of Galilee (that is, the Lake of Tiberias)World English Bible
After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias. Young's Literal Translation
After these things Jesus went away beyond the sea of Galilee (of Tiberias),Additional Translations ...

(1) After these things . . .--Allowing an undefined interval, which is filled up by the earlier Gospels. We need not adopt the purely arbitrary supposition that a portion of the Gospel between John 5, 6 has been lost, nor yet connect them in immediate order of time. For St. John the discourse is that for which the whole is recorded. The exact sequence of events is by him left undetermined.

Went over the sea of Galilee--i.e., crossed over from Galilee to the eastern side of the lake.

Sea of Tiberias.--Comp. John 21:1; but the phrases are not precisely the same. There it is simply "sea of Tiberias." Here it is "sea of Galilee, of Tiberias," the latter term being either an alternative rendering for Greek readers (comp. Note on John 1:28), or a limitation to that part of the lake which was opposite to Tiberias. We shall find reason to believe that the last chapter of the Gospel should be regarded as an appendix, and the present passage may mark the transition between the older names for the lake which meet us in the other Gospels, and the later name, which meets us for the first time in St. John, but was afterwards common in Greek writers. The town itself is named in the New Testament only in this John John 6:23. It was on the west of the lake, and is the present well-known Tabariyeh. Built by Herod the Tetrarch, it was, in accordance with the Herodian policy of courting Rome, named after the Emperor Tiberius. Eusebius tells us that it was commenced in the fourteenth year of Tiberius, which is itself an uncertain date (comp. Note on John 2:20); but we may accept it as placing the building in the time of our Lord, and as explaining that the name of the town does not meet us in the earlier Gospels, while it has at a late date, and at all events for Greek readers, extended to the lake.

Verses 1-71. -

2. Christ declares himself to be the Sustainer and Protector of the life of which he is the Source. Verses 1-15. -

(1) The supply of human wants illustrated by a well known "sign" of power. Chronological difficulties beset our treatment of this miraculous narrative with its varied consequences and results. Many curious and even violent measures have been resorted to with a view to solve them. Some have supposed that ch. 5. and 6. have been inverted in order, and that thus the presence of our Lord in Galilee, mentioned in ch. 4, would account for the statement of ch. 6:1 and the journey to Jerusalem of ch. 5:1, be brought into closer relation with ch. 7. We cannot see the faintest indication or evidence whatever of any such treatment of the Gospel by the authors of the manuscripts or the quotations or versions. The evangelist has just completed his record of the conflict between Jesus and the recognized leaders of the people in Jerusalem. He had introduced our Lord's own vindication (based on the highest grounds) of his own right to deal with the rabbinical restrictions upon sabbath duty. These grounds were the eternal relations of his own inner nature and consciousness with the Father's. On no occasion had Christ made the uniqueness of his personal claims and powers more explicit. He called for entire obedience to his word as the condition of eternal life, and as the key to the Scriptures of God. If we had no synoptic tradition to give a closer historical setting of the narrative which here follows, we might take Meyer's view, and say that the "after these things" (μετὰ ταῦτα) of ver. 1 referred to the discourse of the previous chapter, and that the "departed" (ἀπῆλθε) referred to Jerusalem as its starting point; and, notwithstanding the extreme awkwardness of the expression, we might have supposed that "the other side" of the sea was the other side of it from Jerusalem (cf. John 10:40; John 18:1). Some commentators appear to have a morbid fear of reducing a difficulty, or seeing a harmony, between these four narratives. One thing is dear, that they are independent of one another, are not derived from each other, do each involve side views of the event distinct from the rest, and yet concur in the same general representation. The synoptists, however, place the "feeding of the multitudes" in the midst of a group of most remarkable and varied events. It is for them one page out of many descriptive of the Galilaean ministry, and which ultimately led to grievous departure from and diminution of the temporary popularity of the great Prophet. It would seem that bitter hostility, as well as excited enthusiasm, was checkering his early ministry. The synoptics take pains to show the combined effect of his self-revelations

(1) on his own fellow townsmen (Luke 4:16-30; Mark 6:1-6); . . . Parallel Commentaries ...

Greek

After
Μετὰ (Meta)
Preposition
Strong's 3326: (a) gen: with, in company with, (b) acc: (1) behind, beyond, after, of place, (2) after, of time, with nouns, neut. of adjectives.

this,
ταῦτα (tauta)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it.

Jesus
Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2424: Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites.

crossed
ἀπῆλθεν (apēlthen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 565: From apo and erchomai; to go off, aside or behind, literally or figuratively.

to the other side
πέραν (peran)
Preposition
Strong's 4008: Over, on the other side, beyond. Apparently accusative case of an obsolete derivative of peiro; through, i.e. Across.

of the
τῆς (tēs)
Article - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

Sea
θαλάσσης (thalassēs)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 2281: Probably prolonged from hals; the sea.

of Galilee
Γαλιλαίας (Galilaias)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 1056: Of Hebrew origin; Galiloea, a region of Palestine.

(that [is],
τῆς (tēs)
Article - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

[the Sea] of Tiberias).
Τιβεριάδος (Tiberiados)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 5085: From Tiberios; Tiberias, the name of a town and a lake in Palestine.

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