Walking on water is a powerful statement of divinity-no human can do this, and water is symbolic of the "Great Deep" that the earth floated upon. Again, Jesus prepares his followers by showing is divinity in small lessons like this.
I believe Jesus also replied "I AM" another time. John 18: 6 when the guards came to get Jesus in the middle of the night he asked whom they were looking for, they replied "Jesus of Nazareth", to which Jesus replied "I AM" & all the men immediately fell backward to the ground. Most of our Bibles have him saying "I am he", but I've heard that's an incorrect translation & with that wording, there's no reason why all the soldiers would fall back to the ground. It only makes sense if his proclamation of "I AM" carried so much power that it knocked them down.
Genesis Chapter 1 Verses 1 and 2: In the beginning, when God created the Universe, the Earth was formless and desolate. The raging ocean (WATER) that covered everything was engulfed in total darkness, and the Power and Holy Spirit of God was moving over the WATER.
I also thought of that. Spirit of God or Wind of God. Hovering over the deep/water(s). Same thing happens when God divides the sea where strong winds come and divide the sea, so the Israelites could go on the other side... Also when Jesus was talking about being born of heaven, He first says, nobody knows where the wind goes, it goes where it will, so, Jesus is using an analogy to say Spirit manifests in Winds sometimes. This may be seen lightly but looking back at Genesis chapter one. I don't think it's just normal wind He is taking about. Rather, The Wind (also translated as Spirit) of God. And then He goes to say how one can be born again, or born anew or born of above through water and spirit/wind. I could understand the reaction on Nicodemus' face because as a great Jewish teacher He knew about Genesis, that's why Jesus expected him to understand, and looking at his expression Jesus said, as a great teacher he should know this. The analogy of creation and new creation to be similar. Maybe in Judaism at that time, Jesus expected Rabbis to understand the significance of baptism, at least looking at John the Baptist baptizing everyone. That's why Jesus said that how does he not know and expected him to know. Amazing, isn't it?
I would like to add more context to this episode, this time Dr. Pitre (I guess due to lack of time) falls short of the complete context of this passage: *An Old Testament Symbol* In the Old Testament, the unpredictable sea is a common symbol of cosmic disorder-conditions contrary to God’s design for an ordered world. This symbol for cosmic anarchy is also personified as a sea monster, known as Leviathan or Rahab. The image of chaos as an untamed monster in a churning, erratic sea was common throughout the ancient world. People accustomed to land would naturally view the vast, raging ocean as uncontrollable and potentially deadly, filled with terrifying unknown creatures. Religions across the ancient Mediterranean often depicted their important deities destroying or subduing the sea dragon, thereby calming the sea and restoring order. In the Old Testament, it is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who conquers the forces of chaos and imposes order in the cosmos (Job 26:12-13; Psa 89:5-14). This imagery is applied even to the exodus from Egypt (Psa 74:12-17), where God split the sea to deliver his people, thereby conquering the forces of evil that sought their demise. *Final Victory* God’s ultimate victory at the end of the age is also depicted as God dominating the forces of the sea: “In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the twisting serpent, Leviathan the crooked serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea” (Isa 27:1). This is why the description of the final paradise of the new heaven and new earth contains the phrase, “the sea was no more” (Rev 21:1). The prophet Daniel’s vision of the end of days and the kingdom of God includes four beasts that emerge out of a storm-tossed sea (Dan 7:1-8). These beasts are not aquatic creatures by nature. They come from the sea because they represent chaos. God’s heavenly court sentences the beasts to death (Dan 7:9-12), after which the “son of man” arrives immediately to receive the kingdom of God (Dan 7:13-14). All of this imagery informs John’s account of Jesus walking on the sea during the storm. *Jesus Christ, Lord over the Sea* John identifies Jesus as the Son of Man to whom the Father has given the authority to execute judgment (John 5:27; compare Matt 26:57-68). John also asserts repeatedly that Jesus is God incarnate. In John’s Gospel, Jesus invokes the divine name (“I AM”) seven times in reference to himself (e.g., John 6:35; 15:1). He declares oneness with the Father (John 10:30), and he proclaims that the Father is in him and he is in the Father (John 10:37-38). For John, a Jew familiar with the Old Testament, the image of Jesus walking on the sea was a dramatic portrayal that Jesus is Yahweh-the one who subdues the forces of chaos and imposes his will on the waters and everything the waters represent. The kingdom of the Son of Man had begun, and all forces opposing God’s ordained order would now be defeated. Like Jesus’ disciples, we can find comfort in knowing that the one who treads upon the volatile sea can subdue whatever chaos threatens to overwhelm us. What Walking on Water Really Means - LogosTalk blog.logos.com/2018/07/walking-water-really-means/ *Church fathers* St. John Chrysostom (d. 407AD) in his sermon notes on The Book of Job sees a prophecy in Job pertaining to Christ walking on water. Chrysostom’s text of Job 9:8 says that God “trampled on the sea as on a floor.” St. John notes this a “kind of prophecy” which seems to indicate Chrysostom believed the words were never fulfilled except by Christ walking on the water. However, because the comments we have from Chrysostom are his sermon notes, we don’t know for sure to what he was thinking when he identified the text in Job as a kind of prophecy. It seems likely that Chrysostom was thinking about Jesus walks on water. For certainly in this Gospel lesson we encounter God incarnate in Christ trampling on the seas as on a floor. The biblical commentators from the Patristic era were always looking for references to Christ in the Old Testament - whether prophecies, typologies or events which prefigured Him. Chrysostom ever attentive to details apparently thought a reference in Job to God trampling on the sea to have been fulfill-led only in Christ’s walking on the water. The Orthodox Study Bible also notes that St. Cyril (it doesn’t identify which Cyril) thought that it was Christ walking on water which fulfilled this prophecy. Apparently a commonly held idea in antiquity. frted.wordpress.com/2013/08/25/a-prophecy-of-god-walking-on-water/
Well said Tertius. One of the most inspiring gospels of all in my opinion, that and the Centurian, " Lord I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof. Only say the word and my servant shall be healed." These two blew me away on my way back to the church. Brant Pitre, thank God for you. You keep adding to our understanding and faith.
Since this miracle appears in Mathew, Mark & John, as Dr. Brant points out @ 2:33, it disproves those biblical scholars who argue that only in John does Jesus claim to be God and therefore John the Evangelist was reinventing Jesus as a divine being
Questions: “I am” used in most scriptural sentences would be different than the one used here (I AM-ego emi)? Is Mark 14:62 a regular I am or is it I AM?
It's Eigo Eimi in the Greek. This web site has various language resources. biblehub.com/text/mark/14-62.htm It's not a Catholic site, but it does have Catholic resources as well as protestant. For example, it has the Douhay Rheims translation.
Pat B Thank you. So it would be able to translate whether the “I am” in Mark 14:62 means the same as the one used in Exodus? That’s what I’m trying to figure out.
What's really frustrating and insulting about those "natural explanations" is that they are all supposed to happen to the same man, who is supposedly very lucky in having all these amazingly fortuitous events come together to make him look miraculous. Deny the Gospels if you will, but don't insult us that way.
I am...................they made up a impossible Jesus that’s why he hasn’t come back because nobody is going to heal or walk on water or bring nobody back to life or nobody is coming back through the clouds with his angels just saying the truth
Walking on water is a powerful statement of divinity-no human can do this, and water is symbolic of the "Great Deep" that the earth floated upon. Again, Jesus prepares his followers by showing is divinity in small lessons like this.
"He doesn't say hey everybody I'm God!" loved the way Dr Pitre said that😂
Always goes to the Jewish perspective.Important to understand the context.Thank you Dr.Pitre.God bless your work.
Thank you Dr. Brant Pitre for helping us to digest the Bible.
What a ridiculous story . How brainwashed do you have to be to believe this nonsense?
Jesus Walks on the Water..And reaches out His Hand and Saves Us! When we are sinking.
He is always in our reach. Amen
I love how Dr pitre goes “no!” When talking about skeptics! Hahahaha
I truly believe in everything the bible says about Jesus.
I love your analysis Dr.
God bless you Dr, i learn from you every day.
As always - such a blessing to have such authoritative teaching. Thank you.
Another great explanation Dr. Pitre, thank you.
Thanks for enlightening my confusion Dr Brant Petri! God bless you and be safe always 🙏❤
Thank you sir
Love these. Thank you.
I believe Jesus also replied "I AM" another time. John 18: 6 when the guards came to get Jesus in the middle of the night he asked whom they were looking for, they replied "Jesus of Nazareth", to which Jesus replied "I AM" & all the men immediately fell backward to the ground. Most of our Bibles have him saying "I am he", but I've heard that's an incorrect translation & with that wording, there's no reason why all the soldiers would fall back to the ground. It only makes sense if his proclamation of "I AM" carried so much power that it knocked them down.
Genesis Chapter 1 Verses 1 and 2: In the beginning, when God created the Universe, the Earth was formless and desolate. The raging ocean (WATER) that covered everything was engulfed in total darkness, and the Power and Holy Spirit of God was moving over the WATER.
I also thought of that. Spirit of God or Wind of God. Hovering over the deep/water(s).
Same thing happens when God divides the sea where strong winds come and divide the sea, so the Israelites could go on the other side...
Also when Jesus was talking about being born of heaven, He first says, nobody knows where the wind goes, it goes where it will, so, Jesus is using an analogy to say Spirit manifests in Winds sometimes. This may be seen lightly but looking back at Genesis chapter one. I don't think it's just normal wind He is taking about. Rather, The Wind (also translated as Spirit) of God.
And then He goes to say how one can be born again, or born anew or born of above through water and spirit/wind. I could understand the reaction on Nicodemus' face because as a great Jewish teacher He knew about Genesis, that's why Jesus expected him to understand, and looking at his expression Jesus said, as a great teacher he should know this. The analogy of creation and new creation to be similar.
Maybe in Judaism at that time, Jesus expected Rabbis to understand the significance of baptism, at least looking at John the Baptist baptizing everyone. That's why Jesus said that how does he not know and expected him to know.
Amazing, isn't it?
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I would like to add more context to this episode, this time Dr. Pitre (I guess due to lack of time) falls short of the complete context of this passage:
*An Old Testament Symbol*
In the Old Testament, the unpredictable sea is a common symbol of cosmic disorder-conditions contrary to God’s design for an ordered world. This symbol for cosmic anarchy is also personified as a sea monster, known as Leviathan or Rahab. The image of chaos as an untamed monster in a churning, erratic sea was common throughout the ancient world. People accustomed to land would naturally view the vast, raging ocean as uncontrollable and potentially deadly, filled with terrifying unknown creatures.
Religions across the ancient Mediterranean often depicted their important deities destroying or subduing the sea dragon, thereby calming the sea and restoring order. In the Old Testament, it is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who conquers the forces of chaos and imposes order in the cosmos (Job 26:12-13; Psa 89:5-14). This imagery is applied even to the exodus from Egypt (Psa 74:12-17), where God split the sea to deliver his people, thereby conquering the forces of evil that sought their demise.
*Final Victory*
God’s ultimate victory at the end of the age is also depicted as God dominating the forces of the sea: “In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the twisting serpent, Leviathan the crooked serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea” (Isa 27:1). This is why the description of the final paradise of the new heaven and new earth contains the phrase, “the sea was no more” (Rev 21:1).
The prophet Daniel’s vision of the end of days and the kingdom of God includes four beasts that emerge out of a storm-tossed sea (Dan 7:1-8). These beasts are not aquatic creatures by nature. They come from the sea because they represent chaos. God’s heavenly court sentences the beasts to death (Dan 7:9-12), after which the “son of man” arrives immediately to receive the kingdom of God (Dan 7:13-14). All of this imagery informs John’s account of Jesus walking on the sea during the storm.
*Jesus Christ, Lord over the Sea*
John identifies Jesus as the Son of Man to whom the Father has given the authority to execute judgment (John 5:27; compare Matt 26:57-68). John also asserts repeatedly that Jesus is God incarnate. In John’s Gospel, Jesus invokes the divine name (“I AM”) seven times in reference to himself (e.g., John 6:35; 15:1). He declares oneness with the Father (John 10:30), and he proclaims that the Father is in him and he is in the Father (John 10:37-38).
For John, a Jew familiar with the Old Testament, the image of Jesus walking on the sea was a dramatic portrayal that Jesus is Yahweh-the one who subdues the forces of chaos and imposes his will on the waters and everything the waters represent. The kingdom of the Son of Man had begun, and all forces opposing God’s ordained order would now be defeated. Like Jesus’ disciples, we can find comfort in knowing that the one who treads upon the volatile sea can subdue whatever chaos threatens to overwhelm us.
What Walking on Water Really Means - LogosTalk
blog.logos.com/2018/07/walking-water-really-means/
*Church fathers*
St. John Chrysostom (d. 407AD) in his sermon notes on The Book of Job sees a prophecy in Job pertaining to Christ walking on water. Chrysostom’s text of Job 9:8 says that God “trampled on the sea as on a floor.” St. John notes this a “kind of prophecy” which seems to indicate Chrysostom believed the words were never fulfilled except by Christ walking on the water. However, because the comments we have from Chrysostom are his sermon notes, we don’t know for sure to what he was thinking when he identified the text in Job as a kind of prophecy. It seems likely that Chrysostom was thinking about Jesus walks on water. For certainly in this Gospel lesson we encounter God incarnate in Christ trampling on the seas as on a floor.
The biblical commentators from the Patristic era were always looking for references to Christ in the Old Testament - whether prophecies, typologies or events which prefigured Him. Chrysostom ever attentive to details apparently thought a reference in Job to God trampling on the sea to have been fulfill-led only in Christ’s walking on the water. The Orthodox Study Bible also notes that St. Cyril (it doesn’t identify which Cyril) thought that it was Christ walking on water which fulfilled this prophecy. Apparently a commonly held idea in antiquity.
frted.wordpress.com/2013/08/25/a-prophecy-of-god-walking-on-water/
Amen
Amen brother. Great exegesis complementing Dr. Brant Pitre's explanation
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AMEN 🙏
This talk is so inspirational! I had trouble with this passage, but if it's a "theophany", as Dr. Brant explains, it makes sense
Thank You AVAH Yeshua
Thank You teacher🤝
The priest at my parish said that the bread was from the banquet where John the Baptist was arrested :(
How sad....
How sad how laymen are giving us better explanations than priests. The priesthood is in trouble right now. We must pray for them
I learned something new today! Thank you!
I believe Jesus walked on the sea 😭
Why do you doubt..?
Doubt is an natural enemy of faith
Did Jesus also say to the woman at the well "The one who is speaking to you, I am." ...?
Well said Tertius. One of the most inspiring gospels of all in my opinion, that and the Centurian, " Lord I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof. Only say the word and my servant shall be healed." These two blew me away on my way back to the church.
Brant Pitre, thank God for you. You keep adding to our understanding and faith.
Since this miracle appears in Mathew, Mark & John, as Dr. Brant points out @ 2:33, it disproves those biblical scholars who argue that only in John does Jesus claim to be God and therefore John the Evangelist was reinventing Jesus as a divine being
Theophany language ,,, nice learned more again !
Why would they have left Jesus at that time?
Questions: “I am” used in most scriptural sentences would be different than the one used here (I AM-ego emi)? Is Mark 14:62 a regular I am or is it I AM?
It's Eigo Eimi in the Greek. This web site has various language resources. biblehub.com/text/mark/14-62.htm It's not a Catholic site, but it does have Catholic resources as well as protestant. For example, it has the Douhay Rheims translation.
TheMobbit "I AM" is God's identity in Exodus 8:58. Jesus uses the same identity.
Pat B Thank you. So it would be able to translate whether the “I am” in Mark 14:62 means the same as the one used in Exodus? That’s what I’m trying to figure out.
Marc Crotty Yes, Thank you Marc. I’m trying to find out if the “I am” of ‘ark 14:62 is translated the same as the “I AM” in Exodus.
Pat B Just looked on that site. The I AM in Exodus is eh-yeh so the one in Mark has a different meaning. Thank you so much!
I am. (YAWEH)
Take heart I am 💯
Wow
Moses encountered God on mount Horeb, not mount Sinai. But I still love your video's.
Jesus walked on a thin layer of Shekinah Glory covering the lake. Invisible to commoners.
Who's here after watching the chosen season 3 finale?
Jesus shows off to his followers.
Look, see, I really am a god.
It's a story.
The Sea is saline solution 🙂
Ok but not a single word about walking on water?!
What's really frustrating and insulting about those "natural explanations" is that they are all supposed to happen to the same man, who is supposedly very lucky in having all these amazingly fortuitous events come together to make him look miraculous. Deny the Gospels if you will, but don't insult us that way.
I am...................they made up a impossible Jesus that’s why he hasn’t come back because nobody is going to heal or walk on water or bring nobody back to life or nobody is coming back through the clouds with his angels just saying the truth