Then he told his disciples to have a small boat(A) ready for him, so that the crowd wouldn’t crush him.

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Because of the crowd he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him, to keep the people from crowding him.

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The Bread of Life

22 The next day, the crowd that had stayed on the other side of the sea saw there had been only one boat.[a](A) They also saw that Jesus had not boarded the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone off alone. 23 Some boats from Tiberias(B) came near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. 24 When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus.

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Footnotes

  1. 6:22 Other mss add into which his disciples had entered

22 The next day the crowd that had stayed on the opposite shore of the lake(A) realized that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not entered it with his disciples, but that they had gone away alone.(B) 23 Then some boats from Tiberias(C) landed near the place where the people had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.(D) 24 Once the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of Jesus.

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