John 6:1

Jesus and his special workers left Jerusalem city, and they went north to Galilee country. They got into a boat and went across the lake that some people call Lake Galilee. Other people call it Lake Tiberias.

Plain English Version

In The King James Version

After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias.

In Context

2(It was nearly time for the big Jewish ceremony called Passover.) Jesus and his special workers got to the other side of the lake, then Jesus climbed up a hill and his special workers went with him, and they sat down. Before that time, a lot of people saw Jesus make sick people better, so they followed him up that hill.

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Cross References

Matthew 4:18One day, Jesus walked along next to Lake Galilee, and he saw 2 men throwing a net into the water to catch fish. That was their job. One man was called Simon. He was also called Peter. And the other man was his brother Andrew.

John 6:23The next day, some of those people were still there. They looked around for Jesus, but they couldn’t find him or any of his followers. Some other boats from a town called Tiberias came to the place where Jesus thanked God for the food and fed all the people, so the people got into those boats and went over to Capernium, to look for Jesus there.

Matthew Henry on John 6:1

In this chapter we have, I. The miracle of the loaves, ver. 1-14 . II. Christ's walking upon the water, ver. 15-21 . III. The people's flocking after him to Capernaum, ver. 22-25 . IV. His conference with them, occasioned by the miracle of the loaves, in which he reproves them for seeking carnal food, and directs them to spiritual food ( ver. 26, 27 ), showing them how they must labour for spiritual food ( ver. 28, 29 ), and what that spiritual food is, ver. 30-59 . V. Their discontent at what he said, and the… Read the whole commentary →

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