19 Then when they[a] had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia,[b] they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were afraid. 20 But he said to them, “It is I! Do not be afraid!” 21 So they were wanting to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat came to the land to which they were going.

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Footnotes

  1. John 6:19 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had rowed”) which is understood as temporal
  2. John 6:19 A “stade” or “stadium” (plur. “stadia”) is about 607 ft (187 m), so this was around 3 miles (5 km)