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DAY FOUR:  Jesus Comes Walking

Please carefully read Mark 6:45-52 and answer the following questions.

1.  Right after these events, which John 6 describes in much greater detail, what did Jesus do (v. 45-47)?

2.  Jesus literally compelled His men by force to get away from the crowd onto the boat.  One would think that given that several of the disciples were fishermen that they could handle any situation on the sea, but what happened once again to these guys, and what did Jesus do about it (v. 48)?

3.  Perhaps we shouldn’t be so hard on the men, for once again the Greek words used seem to imply this was an attack of the enemy on them, seeming to be an adversary grievously tormenting them.  Jesus was alone on the land, saw His men in trouble, and came to them, walking on the water! How did the disciples react to this, and what was the result of this all (v. 49-52)?

4.  In the midst of their trial, from their perspective it appeared that Jesus was bypassing them, when He actually was going to pass in front of them in the sense of an Old Testament appearance of Himself; this ties in with what Jesus told them here, as the Greek says “Have courage?I am?do not be afraid” reflecting God’s revelation of Himself in the Old Testament![xi] As John Phillips well said, Jesus addressed their situation in three ways:  “Be of good cheer” appealed to their emotions to comfort them; “It is I” appealed to their minds to remind them of who He is; and “be not afraid” told them they had to make a choice of their wills to trust Him despite what all surrounded them.[xii]  They had to experience this difficulty to learn the lesson they should have from the feeding of the 5,000.  Psalm 107 is almost prophetic of these events.  Read Psalm 107:4-9, 23-32, 41-43, and record how this applied to His disciples and to us as His followers in general.

Scripture Memory:  Try to fill in the missing words in the blanks below, by memory if at all possible, and then review the passage several times today.

And ________________, when He came out, saw a _________________ multitude and was _____________________ with _____________________ for them, because they were like _________________ not having a ________________________. So He began to _____________________ them ___________ things.   Mark 6:34, nkjv