Take Heart It Is I! Mark

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As your good friend Chad Bird points out, Mark uses language which parallels "God passing by and before Israel".
Understanding Mark 6: 45-56 depends on KNOWING WHERE EVENTS TAKE PLACE. Bethsaida is NOT geographically on "the other side" of the feeding of the 5000 and PLEASE... Gennesaret is NOT on the Decapolis side of the Sea of Galilee. Bethsaida is ethnically "on the other side", and that is the point Mark is making.
Bethsaida used to be where the Jordan river enters the Sea of Galilee on the north. The apostle John tells us this is where Peter, Andrew, and Phillip are from. Like Nazareth, where Jesus is from, Matthew tell us the village is scolded for their lack of faith - apparently familiarity leads to contempt.
Gennesaret is west and south of Tabgah and Capernaum.
Jesus tells Peter and crew to row "home" (Bethsaida).
In short, every time God makes a covenant, he presents himself as the MULTIPLIER: "be fruitful and multiply".
Jesus "passes by" (as God) but, like the Pharoah "their hearts were hardened".