3.       (To have Direction) Note dignity of the person

4:35-41             Other side

                        calms sea - who is this

8:13 - 21           Other side

                        bread - not yet realise

 

4:35 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let us go across to the other side." 36 And leaving the crowd they took him with them, just as he was, in the boat. And other boats were with him. 37 And a great storm of wind arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. 39 But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him and said to him. "Teacher do you not care if we perish?" 39 And he awoke and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace! Be still!" And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. 40 He said to them, "Why are you afraid? Have you no faith?" 41 And they were filled with awe, and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even wind and sea obey him?"

8:13 and leaving them again embarking he went away to the other side. 14 And they forgot to take loaves and except one loaf they had not with themselves in the ship. 15 and he charged them saying: See Look ye from the leaven of the Pharisees and of the leaven of Herod. 16 and they reasoned with one another because loaves they have (had) not. 17 And knowing he says to them: Why reason ye because loaves ye have not? not yet understand ye nor realise, having been hardened have ye the heart of you? 18 eyes having see ye not, and ears having hear ye not? and do ye not remember, 19 when the five loaves I broke to the five thousand, how many baskets of fragments full ye took? They say to him: Twelve. 20 When the seven to the four thousand, of how many baskets fullness of fragments ye took? And they say: Seven, 21 and he said to them: Not yet do ye realise?

 

Note: hardness of heart as connected to sea crossing also occurs in point 10. This also fits a "cameo" of water symbols which center around the sea crossing in John and which in turn connects with finding direction. Also the walking on sea in John is connected with the rising again of Lazarus. (Is "rising again" our key direction but it is hampered by hardness of heart?)

 

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