John 6:3-4

6:3 So Jesus went on up the mountainside ¹  and sat down there with his disciples. 6:4 (Now the Jewish feast of the Passover ²  was near.) ³ 

[6:3]  ¹ sn Up on the mountainside does not necessarily refer to a particular mountain or hillside, but may simply mean “the hill country” or “the high ground,” referring to the high country east of the Sea of Galilee (known today as the Golan Heights).

[6:4]  ² sn Passover. According to John’s sequence of material, considerable time has elapsed since the feast of 5:1. If the feast in 5:1 was Pentecost of a.d. 31, then this feast would be the Passover of a.d. 32, just one year before Jesus’ crucifixion.

[6:4]  ³ sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.