Week 36 Mark
The story of the Lord walking on water is pretty spectacular and incredible.
The disciples are out on the stormy lake and the Lord comes to meet them, walking across the water.
Since the disciples were first-century guys they were a lot more ignorant than 21st-century Albertans. But one thing they did know was that it was impossible to walk on water. They didn’t have to know about surface tension and water molecules. You can’t walk on water.
When the Lord got right into the boat Mark says that the disciples were still really cranked up. No surprise, I guess. But Mark also says they shouldn’t have been. He says the reason they were flabbergasted was because: they still didn’t understand the significance of the miracle of the multiplied loaves, for their hearts were hard and they did not believe. Being jacked-up was being unbelieving.
Mark says they should have gotten some insight from when the Lord fed 5000 people earlier that day.
Before that there was Jairus’ daughter.
Before that the haemorrhaging woman.
Before that the exorcism.
There’s a kind of progressive curriculum being taught, and the disciples should have been putting together a composite picture of the Lord. But they weren’t. They didn’t believe.
When the disciples saw a miracle their response was something like an hysterical: wow, did you see that? Unbelievable!
It should have been something more like: hmmmmm…who exactly is this guy?
Note: quote from Mark 6:52 (NLT). The story is in Mark 6:45-52