The miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes is followed closely by Jesus walking on the water.
And he got into the boat with them and the wind ceased. And they were utterly astounded, for they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.
In the slowly developing busyness of dividing out the picnic and heeding the cries of ‘what about us over here’, ‘you missed him’ and so on, there is a failure to notice what is wonderful. It would be the last thing that you would consider as a possibility, something in you, call it reality testing, would cry ‘fail’ to that hypothesis. More likely some of these people brought some bread along and seeing everybody eating have taken theirs out feeling that it was safe to do so. Nobody saw what was evident because it was blocked from their consciousness by their inner Hume but Jesus walking on the water was a shock that was impossible to gloss over.
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