46 Grk “ran together on foot.” The idea of συντρέχω (suntrechō) is “to come together quickly to form a crowd” (L&N 15.133).
47 Or “cities.”
48 The translation here follows the reading προῆλθον (proēlthon, “they preceded”), found in א B (0187) 892 2427 lat co. Some (D 28 33 700 ) read συνῆλθον (sunēlthon, “arrived there with them”), while the majority of , most of them late (𝔓84vid [A f13] 𝔐 syh), conflate the two readings (προῆλθον αὐτοὺς καὶ συνῆλθον πρὸς αὐτόν, “they preceded them and came together to him”). The reading adopted here thus has better external credentials than the variants. As well, it is the harder reading internally, being changed “by copyists who thought it unlikely that the crowd on the land could have outstripped the boat” ( ).

In other versions

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

But many who saw them leaving recognized them and ran on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them.

but many saw them leaving and recognized them, and they ran on foot from all the towns and arrived ahead of them.

But many people recognized them and saw them leaving, and people from many towns ran ahead along the shore and got there ahead of them.

And many people saw them leaving and recognized them, and ran there together by land from all the towns, and arrived ahead of them.

And the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran afoot thither out of all cities, and outwent them, and came together unto him.

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