Mark 6:47

47 And [when] evening came, the boat was in the middle of the sea and he [was] alone on the land.

Mark 6:47 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 6:47

And when even was come
The second evening, and it was properly night:

the ship was in the midst of the sea;
of Galilee, about twenty five or thirty furlongs from the shore; see ( John 6:19 ) ;

and he alone on the land;
upon the mountain. This is observed, partly to show what distress the disciples were in, in the midst of the sea, having a hard gale of wind, and their master not with them; and partly to show that there was no way, humanly speaking, of Christ's getting to the ship, in order to go over; and is an illustration of the following miracle, of walking so many furlongs, as he must, upon the water, in a stormy, blustering night, to get to it.

Mark 6:47 In-Context

45 And immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he himself dismissed the crowd.

46 And [after he] had said farewell to them, he went away to the mountain to pray.

47 And [when] evening came, the boat was in the middle of the sea and he [was] alone on the land.

48 And he saw them being beaten in their rowing because the wind was against them. Around the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea, and he was wanting to pass by them.

49 But [when] they saw him walking on the sea, they thought that it was a ghost, and they cried out.

Footnotes

• [a]. *Here "[when]" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("came")