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The Expositor’s Greek Testament, Volume I (Matthew–John): Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

The 5-volume Expositor’s Greek Testament ranks among the most important commentaries on the Greek text of the New Testament from the 19th century, drawing from the scholarship of twenty contributors under the editorship of William Robertson Nicoll. In addition to the Greek text, this massive reference work contains textual, literary, and grammatical commentary on nearly every Greek word in the...

CHAPTER 6. Jesus miraculously furnishes a meal for 5000 men with women and children, and thus manifests Himself as the Bread from heaven. This provokes the crisis in Galilee.—Vv. 1–13. The miracle narrated.—Ver. 1. μετὰ ταῦτα, John’s indefinite note of time. The interval between chap. 5 and chap. 6 depends on the feast alluded to, 5:1. If it was Purim, only a month had elapsed; if it was Passover, a year. In any case Jesus had left Jerusalem, the reason being that the Jews sought to slay Him (7:1).