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Matthew 14:25

Matthew 14:25

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

And in the fourth watch of the night. Therefore some nine hours after sunset (, note). They had been battling for hours, and had only gone about three miles and a half (). Jesus went; came (Revised Version); ἦλθε, not ἀπῆλθε, with Received Text.

Unto them, walking on the sea ( ἐπὶ τὴν θάλθασσαν); contrast ( ἐπὶ τῆς θαλάσσης). Here there is more thought of motion (cf. ), but in the next verse the advance is almost forgotten, and the fact of Christ being on the water is all-important; "they saw him on the sea, walking."

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