MATTHEW 14:23 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.”
And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone. The private prayer on the mountain follows the public miracle and the dispersal. The solitude that verse 13 sought but the crowd's need prevented is now achieved. Jesus prays alone on the mountain while the disciples are in the boat on the sea — the same spatial configuration as the transfiguration, where Jesus goes up the mountain and the disciples are below.
Church Fathers on Matthew 14:23
aug ht him, and said unto him, '0 thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?'
Catena Aurea · St. Thomas Aquinas, tr. J. H. Newman · public domain
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