Mark 6:45-52

Living Bible

⁴⁵ Immediately after this Jesus instructed his disciples to get back into the boat and strike out across the lake to Bethsaida, where he would join them later. He himself would stay and tell the crowds good-bye and get them started home.

⁴⁶ Afterwards he went up into the hills to pray. ⁴⁷ During the night, as the disciples in their boat were out in the middle of the lake, and he was alone on land, ⁴⁸ he saw that they were in serious trouble, rowing hard and struggling against the wind and waves.

About three o’clock in the morning he walked out to them on the water. He started past them, ⁴⁹ but when they saw something walking along beside them, they screamed in terror, thinking it was a ghost, ⁵⁰ for they all saw him.

But he spoke to them at once. “It’s all right,” he said. “It is I! Don’t be afraid.” ⁵¹ Then he climbed into the boat and the wind stopped!

They just sat there, unable to take it in! ⁵² For they still didn’t realize who he was, even after the miracle the evening before! For they didn’t want to believe!^[a]