<p>6:25 <i>And when they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him: Rabbi, when did you come here?</i>- Often we ask questions which disguise our essential question, which we are afraid to ask or verbalize. The real question was <i>how</i> He had come to Capernaum. But they covered this by enquiring <i>when</i>. In their hearts they must surely have sensed that He had also performed a miracle in terms of His presence. And He wished to stretch the thinking of His true followers on this point, leading them up to His paradigm breaking promise of the Comforter, His presence realized by the Spirit and without His physical presence. Their seeking and 'finding' Him was on a purely human level; see on :24.</p>