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In the middle of the night, Jesus walks across a stormy lake to reach his disciples' boat.
After feeding the five thousand, Jesus sends the disciples ahead by boat and goes up a mountain to pray. In the early morning hours, with the boat battered by waves, the disciples see a figure walking toward them on the water and are terrified. Jesus calls out, 'It's me — don't be afraid.' In Matthew's account, Peter steps out of the boat and walks on water too, until he takes his eyes off Jesus and starts to sink.
Matthew
When Everything Falls Apart and the Water Holds
A paranoid ruler kills a prophet, Jesus feeds thousands with almost nothing, and then walks across a storm to reach his friends. This chapter moves from a dark execution to a moment of worship on a wind-swept lake — and Peter steps out of the boat right in the middle of it.
Mark
The Chapter Where Everything Accelerates
Jesus gets rejected by people who've known him his whole life, sends out his disciples for the first time, loses his cousin John in the worst way possible, feeds five thousand people with a kid's lunch, and then walks across a lake. Mark 6 doesn't slow down for a second.
John
The Teaching That Cleared the Room
Jesus feeds five thousand people with a kid's lunch, walks across a lake in the dark, and then gives a teaching so intense that nearly everyone who followed him walks away. What's left at the end is a confession that cuts straight to the heart.
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