And when they had passed over, they came into the land of Gennesaret, and drew to the shore.
Study Helps
Interpretation
The church is often like a ship at sea, tossed with tempests, and not comforted: we may have Christ for us, yet wind and tide against us; but it is a comfort to Christ's disciples in a storm, that their Master is in the heavenly mount, interceding for them.
Glossary
- Gennesaret Place
- A garden of riches. (1. ) A town of Naphtali, called Chinnereth ( Josh. 19:35 ), sometimes in the plural form Chinneroth (11:2). In later times the name was gradually changed to Genezar and Gennesaret ( Luke 5:1 ). Modern identification: El Ghuweir.