<p>6:35 <em>And when the day was far spent, his disciples came to him- </em>The implication is that they weren&rsquo;t standing by Him, but rather watching cynically from a distance. Which explains their harsh attitude to the crowds. After all, they too had been followers of John the Baptist, they too wanted to get away on their own to mourn the news of His death. They probably felt the Lord should&rsquo;ve sent away the multitudes from the start. It&rsquo;s not hard to sense that the record paints the disciples negatively at this time. But who wrote this record? The Gospels are transcripts of how the disciples preached the Gospel. Despite the process of inspiration, the disciples in their recounting of the Gospel repeatedly mentioned their own weakness, and thereby would&rsquo;ve come over as all the more credible to their audience. And in this we see a fine pattern for our own witness.</p><p><em>And said: The place is deserted and the day is now far spent</em>- <em>&nbsp;</em>AV &quot;The time is now past&quot;. &ldquo;Past&rdquo; translates&nbsp;<em>parerchomai</em>; the Lord uses a similar word in replying that &ldquo;they need not&nbsp;<em>depart</em>&rdquo;-&nbsp;<em>aperchomai</em>. This word choice not only aided memorization of the Gospel record. The disciples considered that time had more than gone, that it was inevitable that the Lord must now send the crowd away, and should&rsquo;ve done earlier. But He is saying that actually He is not limited by time, the time didn&rsquo;t have to be &ldquo;past&rdquo;; because He was not limited by food either, and could feed them.</p>