and ran through that whole region, carrying the sick on mats to wherever they heard He was.
This passage of story we had Mat 14:22, etc., only what was there related concerning Peter, is omitted here. Here we have, I. The dispersing of the assembly; Christ constrained his disciples to go before by ship to Bethsaida, intending to follow them, as they supposed, by land. The people were loth to scatter, so that it cost him some time and pains to send them away.
Commenting on Mark 6:45-56
And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country,.... Whether in smaller towns, or larger cities, or the fields, where were houses, here and there one: they laid the sick in the streets; or "markets", in any public places: and besought him that they but might touch the border of his garment; if they might not be admitted to touch his person, or he...