Johannes 6:15

15 Jezus dan, wetende, dat zij zouden komen, en Hem met geweld nemen, opdat zij Hem Koning maakten, ontweek wederom op den berg, Hij Zelf alleen.

Johannes 6:15 Meaning and Commentary

John 6:15

When Jesus therefore perceived
As being the omniscient God, who knew their hearts, and the secret thoughts and purposes of them; or, as man, understood by their words and gestures:

that they would come and take him by force, and make him a king;
that they had "determined", as the Arabic version renders it; or "had it in their mind", as the Persic; to gather about him as one man, and seize him in a violent manner, whether he would or not; and proclaim him the King Messiah; place him at the head of them, to deliver the nation from the Roman yoke, and set up a temporal kingdom, in which they might hope for great secular advantages: and they might the rather be induced to take such a step, since, by this miracle, they could not doubt of his being able to support such an army of men, and to succeed in the enterprise; for he that could do this, what was it he could not do? but,

he departed again into a mountain, himself alone;
he left the company directly, upon this resolution of theirs, and even took not his disciples with him, who were in the same way of thinking about a temporal kingdom, as the people, and might encourage them in this undertaking: the mountain Christ went into, very probably was the same he went up to before; the reasons of his departure, were to prevent the attempt; to show that his kingdom was not of this world; to teach his followers to forsake the honours and riches of this world, for his sake; and to let them know, that those who sought only for a temporal redeemer, were unworthy of his presence: and also he went away alone, for the sake of secret retirement, and private prayer; and it may be chiefly, that he prayed that God would open the minds of these men, and particularly the disciples; that they might be convinced of their mistaken notions of him as a temporal prince: some copies add, "and he prayed there"; the Syriac, Ethiopic, and Persic versions leave out the word "again"; and the latter, contrary to all others, renders it, "Christ departed from the mountain alone".

Johannes 6:15 In-Context

13 Zij vergaderden ze dan, en vulden twaalf korven met brokken van de vijf gerstebroden, welke overgeschoten waren dengenen, die gegeten hadden.

14 De mensen dan, gezien hebbende het teken, dat Jezus gedaan had, zeiden: Deze is waarlijk de Profeet, Die in de wereld komen zou.

15 Jezus dan, wetende, dat zij zouden komen, en Hem met geweld nemen, opdat zij Hem Koning maakten, ontweek wederom op den berg, Hij Zelf alleen.

16 En als het avond geworden was, gingen Zijn discipelen af naar de zee.

17 En in het schip gegaan zijnde, kwamen zij over de zee naar Kapernaum. En het was alrede duister geworden, en Jezus was tot hen niet gekomen.