Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
A desert place - A retired place, across the sea from Capernaum, where they would be free from interruption.
There were many coming and going - Coming to be healed and retiring, or coming to hear him preach. It means that they were "thronged," or that there was a vast multitude attending his preaching.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Mark 6:31:
Luke 9:10-17
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