16. Ut autem sero factum est 16. And when evening was come, descenderunt discipuli eius ad his disciples went down to the mare. sea. 17. Et cum ascendissent navim, 17. And when they had gone up venerunt trans mare in into a ship, they went over Capharnaum: et tenebrae iam the sea to Capharnaum: and it factae erant: et non venerat was now dark, and Jesus was ad eos Iesus. not come unto them. 17. *They went over the sea.* Rather, *they were going*. From St. Matthew we learn that Christ had told the disciples immediately after the miracle, to go before Him across the lake, whilst He dismissed the crowd. St. Mark adds that they were told to cross to Bethsaida; _i.e._, to the town of this name, which was near Capharnaum. See above, i. 44. The direction of the wind or some other motive may have induced them to go towards Capharnaum, as St. John here tells us they did. 18. Mare autem, vento magno 18. And the sea arose by flante, exurgebat. reason of a great wind that blew. 19. Cum remigassent ergo quasi 19. When they had rowed stadia viginti quinque aut therefore about five and triginta, vident Iesum twenty or thirty furlongs, ambulantem supra mare, et they see Jesus walking upon proximum navi fieri, et the sea, and drawing nigh to timuerunt. the ship, and they were afraid. 19. The stadium, a Greek measure, was nearly equal to an English furlong, so that the distance here indicated was, at the least, almost three miles. The exact length of the stadium was 625 feet, that of the English furlong is 660 feet. 20. Ille autem dicit eis: Ego 20. But he saith to them: It sum, nolite timere. is I: be not afraid. 21. Voluerunt ergo accipere 21. They were willing eum in navim: et statim navis therefore to take him into the fuit ad terram, in quam ibant. ship: and presently the ship was at the land, to which they were going. 21. *They were willing therefore to take him into the ship.* ἤθελον here is equivalent to an adverb (Kuin.), and the sense is: “They gladly took Him into the ship” (boat), as St. Mark indeed tells us they did (Mark vi. 51). Or, if, with Winer, _Gr. Gram._, p. 586, it be admitted that θέλω never has an adverbial force, except in the participle, then we would explain that though at first afraid (verse 19), they were afterwards willing to take Him into the ship, and took Him in.