## the disciples had rowed ##
Boats usually had two, four or six people rowing with rowers on each side working together. Your culture may have different ways of making a boat go across a large body of water.
## about twenty-five or thirty stadia ##
five or thirty stadia** - "about five or six kilometers." A "stadium" is 185 meters. (See: [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/biblicaldistance]])