John 6:15 Commentary and Bible Study

Jesus understood their false evaluation of him and how at odds his divine mission was to the role they now assigned to him. For entirely the wrong reason they wanted to make him king, a king very different to the one foretold in Scripture. The other gospels tell us that he dismissed the crowd. John simply sticks to his abridged account, ‘he went into a mountain alone.’ What a remarkable thing this is. Here they were coming, they wanted to acclaim him, and seize him, but his power was such he didn’t’ run away; he simply said – I don’t know what he said, but in so many words – ‘You’re dismissed’ and they all went meekly away. He was the Son of God. He was in his humiliation, wearing a weak, human body, but just as he worked miracles, when he chose, he could speak with such a voice, it may not have sounded any different, but there was divine power in it and those people had to obey, and comply, and he sent them away, and went into a mountain alone.