After Jesus feeds and\u00a0dismisses the crowd of 4,000, he and his disciples board a boat and row west across the lake.<\/p>\n
The miraculous meal overwhelms a rather mundane ambiguity. From whence the boat?<\/p>\n
Are we to conclude that they stole\u00a0the boat? Of course not!<\/p>\n
If they borrowed the boat they would by necessity have to return it.\u00a0Alternatively, some of Jesus’ newfound friends might have given him a lift.<\/p>\n
The option developed in the SpendaYearwithJesus storyline is that Jesus’ dispatched\u00a0his married\u00a0disciples to their homes to meet him later on the other side of the lake.<\/p>\n
On the one hand, the married men could spend some time, however brief,\u00a0with their families. On the other hand, their\u00a0splitting off and then rejoining the group could account for the boat.<\/p>\n
The challenge to this\u00a0option is a view that Jesus and the twelve were together at all times..24×7 — always teaching and healing except when they were walking from town to town.<\/p>\n
The manic teaching and healing schedule, however,\u00a0does not account for the logistics surrounding those activities.<\/p>\n
Jesus did not have a staff to whom he could delegate. If he had anything even close to resembling a travel secretary or a transportation captain, they were probably part of\u00a0the twelve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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