John 6:1
Praise the Lord today's verse is from John 6:1. After this Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is this sea of Tiboreus We are starting with John chapter 6 today in this chapter we are going to see Jesus perform two more impressive miracles and impossible feats. He will feed five thousand and walk on water. This feeding of 5000 is the only miracle recorded in all four gospel, which shows the importance and significance of this miracle.
The synoptic gospels which suggests two reasons that Jesus and his disciples withdrew to the eastern side of the lake. Mark 6, says the disciples had just returned from a preaching mission. Jesus too had been heavily involved in exhausting ministry, while they were gone, and the Lord knew the disciples needed a time of rest and instruction. Matthew 14:13 reveals that the news of John the Baptist death provided an additional reason for their withdrawal.
So they went away by themselves in a boat, but many who saw them leavi...