1. Mark 6:33 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What is suggested by the use of the term "recognized"?

Mark 6:33 (ESV)

33 Now many saw them going and recognized them, and they ran there on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them.

This puzzling statement must mean in this connection that many knew so much about Jesus that they could guess that he would now go to his well-known place of retreat.1