John: “When Jesus therefore perceived that they [the multitude] would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain alone” ([vi, 15]).
Matthew and Mark say nothing about the attempt to make him king; John says nothing about his praying.
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Were his disciples with him?
Matthew and Mark: “And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitude away. And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray; and when the evening was come, he was there alone. But the ship was now in the midst of the sea” ([Matt. xiv, 22–24]; [Mark vi, 45–47]).
Luke: “And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples were with him” ([ix, 18]).
Matthew and Mark send his disciples ahead in a ship to make room for his miracle of walking on the sea, a miracle that Luke knows nothing of.