Seeking or Settling? 3
Accounts of Jesus feeding the 5,00 and/or walking on water appear in all four Gospels (Matthew 14; Mark 6; Luke 9; John 6; calming storms Matthew 8 and Luke 8).
Two tellings of the feeding of the 5,000 (Matthew 14 and Mark 6) are preceded by word of John the Baptizer's death.
Each has its own angle or insight as to the main points of the event.
After the feeding of the 5,000, Matthew 14 and Mark 6 indicate that Jesus sent the crowd away after telling the disciples to get into the boat, John 6 that the disciples decided to do this when evening came and Jesus had not returned from the mountain yet.
Are these discrepancies real or only apparent? And why is the event of Jesus walking on the water included in John 6 where the majority of the time is taken up with Jesus presenting the choice between temporal and eternal bread?
While Jesus had made Himself absent from the crowd, He wanted to reassure the disciples that though they would find themselves in rough waters from time to time, His presence would always be with them.
The next day, Jesus would again deal with the crowd and the question, were they seeking eternal or settling for temporal sustenance, as the next verses tell us the crowd went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus. We'll look at that in the next post on the question, seeking or settling?
Accounts of Jesus feeding the 5,00 and/or walking on water appear in all four Gospels (Matthew 14; Mark 6; Luke 9; John 6; calming storms Matthew 8 and Luke 8).
Two tellings of the feeding of the 5,000 (Matthew 14 and Mark 6) are preceded by word of John the Baptizer's death.
Each has its own angle or insight as to the main points of the event.
After the feeding of the 5,000, Matthew 14 and Mark 6 indicate that Jesus sent the crowd away after telling the disciples to get into the boat, John 6 that the disciples decided to do this when evening came and Jesus had not returned from the mountain yet.
Are these discrepancies real or only apparent? And why is the event of Jesus walking on the water included in John 6 where the majority of the time is taken up with Jesus presenting the choice between temporal and eternal bread?
While Jesus had made Himself absent from the crowd, He wanted to reassure the disciples that though they would find themselves in rough waters from time to time, His presence would always be with them.
The next day, Jesus would again deal with the crowd and the question, were they seeking eternal or settling for temporal sustenance, as the next verses tell us the crowd went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus. We'll look at that in the next post on the question, seeking or settling?
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