“Et cum invenissent eum trans mare, dixerunt ei : Rabbi, quando huc venisti ?”
“And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said unto him, Rabbi, when camest thou hither?”
“When they found Him on the other side of the sea, they asked Him, “Rabbi, when did You get here?””
“When they found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?””
“And when they found him on the other side of the sea, they said unto him, Rabbi, when camest thou hither?”
Joh 6:23"
II. The success of this enquiry: They found him on the other side of the sea, v. 25. Note, Christ will be found of those that seek him, first or last; and it is worth while to cross a sea, nay, to go from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth, to seek Christ, if we may but find him at last. These people appeared afterwards to be unsound, and not actuated by any good principle, and yet were thus zealous. Note, Hypocrites may be very forward in their attendance on God's ordinances. If men have no more to show for their love to Christ than their running after sermons and prayers, and their pangs of affection to good preaching, they have reason to suspect themselves no better than this eager crowd. But though these people were no better principled, and Christ knew it, yet he was willing to be found of them, and admitted them into fellowship with him. If we could know the hearts of hypocrites, yet, while their profession is plausible, we must not exclude them from our communion, much less when we do not know their hearts.
Verses 22-27 Instead of answering the inquiry how he came there, Jesus blamed their asking. The utmost earnestness should be employed in seeking salvation, in the use of appointed means; yet it is to be sought only as the gift of the Son of man. Him the Father has sealed, proved to be God. He declared the Son of man to be the Son of God with power.