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1.
When the crowds found out where He was, they walked all the way round the lake to where He was. Yahshua (Jesus) was
not angry because they wanted Him to help them when He needed to rest, but He continued to teach them all afternoon, until
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2.
When He saw that the people had walked all the way round the sea to reach Him, the Bible says "He had compassion (pity) on them" and
He began to teach them and to heal those who were poorly. |
3.
After listening to Yahshua all day, the people began to be hungry. Yashsua's friends (disciples) came and reminded Him that it
was late, and they were in the desert, with no food. They suggested that he should send the people away to buy bread from
the villages.
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4. But Yahshua said to them,"They don't need to
go away, you
feed them!" They replied
that they only had five small loaves and two fishes. Yahshua blessed
the bread and fishes. He gave them to His disciples, and they began to
share them out among the people. |
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5. A miracle took place! Every one of the five thousand people was fed! Afterwards when
they gathered up the remains of the food they found that there were twelve whole baskets left over! What an amazing miracle
Yahshua performed that day!
Later, Yahshua told His disciples (friends) to get into a small ship and go over the sea to the other side while He sent all the
people back to their homes. When all was quiet, Yahshua went up into the mountains by Himself to pray. Maybe He was thinking
about His cousin John, and how sad he felt that he had been killed by King Herod.
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6. When the disciples were about half way across the sea, the waves became very rough,
and were beating against the sides of the
ship in which they were sailing. Perhaps they were afraid, especially when they saw something strange!
They saw what looked like a man walking on the sea! He
was actually walking on top of the water! They were suddenly frightened, and they thought it was a spirit or something very
creepy!
They had never seen anything like this before, and they began to cry out because of their fear and terror.
When He came near to their ship, He spoke to them and said,
"Don't be afraid, it is Me!" They knew it was Yahshua, and they were so happy to see Him.
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7. Peter looked at Yahshua walking on
the sea, and called to Him "Master, if it is really You, let me walk on the water too, and come to You!" When Yahshua said
that he could, Peter climbed out of the ship and began to walk on the water towards Yahshua!
While he was looking at
Yahshua and believing, (having faith) he actually found himself walking on top of the water, but then he stopped looking at
Yahshua and began to notice the wind blowing and the waves roaring around him and he began to be afraid all over again!
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8.
His
feet no longer were walking on the top of the water, but he found himself beginning to sink! He cried out to Yahshua and
begged Him to save him: "Master, save me!" he called.
Yahshua stretched out His hand and caught him. He said "Oh Peter,
you have such a little bit of faith, why did you doubt?" Yahshua brought him back to the ship and as soon as they climbed
in the wind suddenly stopped and all the waves calmed down. The men in the ship began to worship Yahshua saying "Surely, You
are the Son of God!"
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