over to the other side.’ Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him.” The Greek tense reveals a note of urgency in Jesus’ decision to depart.2 Perhaps he was so tired that he had “hit the wall” and knew he could not go on. At any rate, in the darkening shadows of dusk Jesus moved to the stern of the boat where he wearily reclined on a coxswain’s pillow. The boat hoisted sail and began the five-mile trip across the lake, followed
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