12 When they were filled, he ſaid unto his diſciples Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be loſt.
13 Therefore they gathered them together, and ll ed twelve baskets with the fragments of the tive barley- loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten #.
Z The Story is the ſame, in all ſubſtantial parts, with the Relat ons of Mathew, Mark, and Luke, in the before mentioned places, See the Annotations on thoſe Chaprers.
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Chri# feedeth five thouſand men with fiveLoaves and two littleFiſhes, 1--13. Perceiving that they would by force make him their King, departeth into a Mountain,14-15.In the night walketh on the Sea, 16- 21. The multitude ſeck Feſus, whom they found at Capernaum, 22--25. Chriſts Exhortation to ſeek incorruptible Food, 26-40, Whereat the Fews murmur, 4.1--42, Chri#t telleth them, that hy Body 1 mcat, and hx Blood drink indeed, 43--58. Telleth them the eruc ſenſe of his words, 59-65, Wherefore many of his Diſciples
29 away from him, 66--71.
Frer theſe things a Jeſus *® \ Galilee b, which is the See of Tiberias c.
a 5ome good time (fone think near a Year) after rhe Paſſages in the tormer Chapter, 6 Cariſt went over the Lake of Galilee ( for
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phet that ſhould come into the world & oF & hk When they had ſeen the Miracle of Chrifts mulnplyng Five » Loaves and two Fiſhes, tothe feeding of Five thouſand Perſons, bt- fides Women and Children; a Miracle of that Nature, that never any ſuch was wrought either by Moſes, or any Propher and to r6 working of which, a Creating power was neceſſary : Thus hy them to a ſtrong Perſwaſion, that this was the Meſſis ; for he 1s s nified by that Phraſe, The Prophet which ſhould come into the Worid, as appeareth from Luke 7. 19. 15 When Jeſus therefore perceived that they w_ come and take him by force, to make him a King 4,0
departed again into a mountain himſelf alone 7.
. : T7, Mountain alone, after he had ſent { This motion of Chriſt into a _ mo 1 "Cer that kis Diſci
the Fes called all great colleQions of Waters, Seas ) it is alſo called the Lake of T:berzas, and the Lake of Genneſareth, Luke 5. 1. Theſe Waters received their Name from che whole Province whoſe Coaſt '1ey wathed ; fo they were called the Sea of Galilee, or the particu- far Shore, or Cities they walked ; fo they are ſometimes called rhe Sea of Tiberias, lomerimes the Lake of Genneſareth, Ir appeareth by Mark 6. 31. that he went upon the Apoſtles coming to give him an 2Ccount of what they had done, and taughr.
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away the Mulrirude (thus miraculouſly ; eres taken Ship _ is mentioned by two other Evange!!'s5 by Mathew, Ch. 14. 23. Mark. 6. 45. 46» expreſſed by neither of chem 3 who borh ſay, Pray : And indeed Fohn (who rarely mentionerh any thin by the orhers) is judged to have recorded this Hiſtory, 4s cellent Diſcourſe of our Saviours, following ſome particular Circumſtanices in, and about t tioned by the other Evangelitt ; of which, as th with Phzlip, was one. ſo this King, was another, and zealous for their Liberties ; the whom our Saviour was ar =_ rime: ; rhing but a Leader for a Sed1 than $60; Afffs 5. 36. 37. under the Conduct of one Theu x Fudas of Galilee, Error as to the Meſſias (whom they dreamed gave them a colour for theſe Inſurrections, ger any to take upon him that prerence- great Miracles wrought by Chrilt, particu
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