Matthew Poole and continuators on Mark 6:33

33 And the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran a foot thither, out of all cities, and outwent them, and came together unto him.

Matthew m[illegible: 1 letter]kes the cause of this motion of our Saviour's, to have been his receiving the Report of Herods dealing with Iohn the Baptist, as we often find him yielding to the Fury of his adversaries. Mark A[illegible: 1 letter]signs another Reason (as there may be several Reasons or Motions of and to the same Action or Motion) viz. That both himself and his Apostles might have a little R[illegible: 1 letter]st. The place which he chose for his Recess, is called a D[illegible: 1 letter]sert place, not because it was wholely not Inhabited, [illegible: 1 letter]ut very thinly Inhabited. Luke saith, It was a Desert place, belonging to the City called Bethsaida, probably some large Forrest, or Common Pasture, which belonged to that City, and took a Denomination from it. It was a Place on the other [illegible: 1 letter]ide of the Water, for they went to it by Ship▪ But this Water was but a Lake, tho called the Sea of Tyberias, for the People fetching a little further compass about, went thither on Foot, and out went the motion of the Ship.