Matthew Poole and continuators on Mark 6:46

46 And when he had sent them away, he departed into a mountain to pray.

If this Desert where Christ was, were as Luke saith, Chap. 9▪10. a desert belonging to Bethsaida, those words [non-Latin text not transcribed] are ill Translated unto Bethsaida, and the M[illegible: 1 letter]rginal Note in our larger Bibles is better, over against Bethsaida. Our Saviour here first sends away his Disciples by Water, then he dismisseth the Multitude to go to their own Homes. Then he goeth up into a Mountain to pray. We find Christ very often in the Duty of Secret Prayer, very often chus[illegible: 1 letter]ng a Mountain (as a place of Solitude for the performance of it, and very often making use of the Night for it, which is also a time of qui[illegible: 1 letter]tness and solitude, which lets us know that secret Prayer is [illegible: 1 letter]ecessary, not only for the bewailing and confessing, and begging Pardon for our secret Sins, (for Christ had no such) but for our more free and more near Communion with God, for altho Go[illegible: 1 letter] filleth all places, yet we shall observe that God, in his [illegible: 1 letter]ore then ordinary Communion with the People, hath not admitted of company, of which Abraham, and Moses, and Iacob, and all the Prophets are sufficient instances.