The people. — Better, the multitude. It is the same word which in John 6:5 is rendered “company.”
On the other side of the sea — i.e., on the eastern side. The writer’s starting-point is now Capernaum. In John 6:25 the same words mean the western side, the starting-point of the multitude being the scene of the miracle.
Save that one whereinto his disciples were entered. — Better, save one, with the best MSS. The addition has arisen from an explanatory gloss.