8:40 Now when Jesus returned, 1 the crowd welcomed him, because they were all waiting for him.
1 tn This is a temporal infinitival clause in contrast to Mark’s genitive absolute (Mark 5:21).
sn Here the author notes that Jesus returned to the western shore of the Sea of Galilee after his brief excursion into Gentile territory (8:26-39; cf. also Mark 5:21).