45And straightway he constrained his disciples to get into the ship, and to go to the other side before unto Bethsaida, while he sent away the people.
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And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away. …
When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone. …
And they departed into a desert place by ship privately.
And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 45-56)This passage of story we had Matt. 14:22; only what was there related concerning Peter, is omitted here. Here we have, I. The dispersing of the assembly; Christ constrained his disciples to go before by ship to Bethsaida, intending to follow them, as they supposed, by land. The people were loth to scatter, so that it cost him some time and pains to send them away. For now that they had got a good…
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