John Gill, on John 6:14

“Now those men, when they had seen what a miracle Jesus had done, said: This is of a truth the prophet, that is to come into the world.”

“Then those men,.... The five thousand men, who had been fed with the loaves and fishes: when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did; in feeding so many of them, with so small a quantity of food; in multiplying the provision in such a prodigious manner, that after they had eaten to the full, so many baskets of fragments were taken up: said, this is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world; meaning that prophet, that Moses spoke of, in Deu 18:15; for the ancient Jews understood this passage of the Messiah, though the modern ones apply it to others; See Gill on Act 3:22. And these men concluded that Jesus was that prophet, or the true Messiah, from the miracle he wrought; in which he appeared, not only to be like to Moses, but greater than he.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.