9 The Walking on the Water

The Walking on the Water

The story of Jesus’ walking on the water appears in three of the four Gospels: not, as one might expect, in the three Synoptic Gospels, but in Matthew, Mark, and John. Luke does not include this episode; he moves directly from the feeding miracle to the confession of Peter. Like the feeding of the five thousand, the miracle of Jesus’ walk on water is a “nature miracle” in that it is a demonstration of Jesus’ sovereignty over natural forces…

Taken from Parallel Lives of Jesus by Edward Adams