disciples to the sea, the parting of the disciples to the sea, and the praying by Christ after the disciples’ departure to the sea. The account in John’s Gospel of this experience reports that after Christ had miraculously fed the multitude on the eastern side of the Sea of Galilee, He “perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king” (John 6:15). This desire of the crowd sounds noble, but it definitely was not. It was, in fact, a big problem for Christ. They
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