straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship] His disciples here, are the apostles, or attendants in ordinary; not the rest, though they came to be taught by him. So chap. 13. 41. and 15. 36. and 17. 25. They were willing to have slayed with Christ, because they loved his company, and saw no other ship there for him to come in, John 6:22. They were loth to leave him in a wildernesse, a little before night, to come over the lake alone. But he, fearing lest they, out of their respect to him, should joyn with the people to make him a king, John 6:15. and intending, in the following storm, to try their faith, and shew them what need they had of him, compelled them to go before. unto the other side] See notes on v. 13.