The Lord actually fed closer to fifteen thousand than to five thousand people that day. JESUS WALKS ON THE WATER As soon as the multitude was fed, Jesus sent his disciples to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, and He went to pray. And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away [Matt. 14:22]. “Straightway” is a word of urgency and swift movement. Matthew’s record has a strange omission at the conclusion
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