Mark 6:45

The feeding of the 5,000 evidently happened on the northeast side of the Sea of Galilee south of Bethsaida Julius. This town stood immediately east of the place where the Jordan River empties into the lake on its northern coast. Some of the town may have been on the western side of the Jordan. [Note: Hiebert, p. 164.] Evidently Jesus sent His disciples to another Bethsaida, near Capernaum, by boat (cf. John 6:17). Peter, Andrew, and Philip were evidently from this Bethsaida (John 1:45; John 12:21), and Peter and Andrew’s home was in Capernaum (Mark 1:29). So the two villages must have been very close together, perhaps even connected. [Note: Edersheim, 2:3-4.] "The boat" was the one they had used to travel in earlier that day (Mark 6:32). God had appeared to Israel from a mountain (Deuteronomy 33:2; Habakkuk 3:3), and now Jesus appeared to His disciples after being on a mountain with God in prayer. [Note: Guelich, p. 349.]