[B-Greek] Walking on Water (Mk 6:49)

Mark Lightman lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 19 16:12:24 EDT 2010


No, Ted, you have not misunderstood anything.  You
made my point a lot better and more briefly than I did.
 
In this case the obvious needs to be said (and re-said) because 
Richard's friend is not the only guy to say this about "by" not "on" the water.
I remember hearing it years ago with just such
an emphasis on what the "Greek really says."
 
It does sound, though, Ted, that you have slightly
different take on this than George and I do.  Without
putting words in your mouth, are you saying that the
chance that EPI THS QALASSHS in Mk 6:49 means
"by the water" is, on a scale of zero to zero,
zero being impossible and zero being impossible,
a zero?       :)

Mark L


FWSFOROS MARKOS

--- On Fri, 3/19/10, theomann at comcast.net <theomann at comcast.net> wrote:


From: theomann at comcast.net <theomann at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Walking on Water (Mk 6:49)
To: "bGreek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Friday, March 19, 2010, 1:56 PM





Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Walking on Water (Mk 6:49) 

Richard wrote: 
  
<My friend is a pretty bright fellow normally and yet he insists that he 
knows of a reputable source of Greek scholarship that upholds this notion of 
Jesus "walking by the sea" in Mark's gospel. So now let me ask this... Does 
anyone know of anywhere in Greek literature where "PERIPATWN EPI TH 
THALASSH" is used in this way or could be legitimately translated in this 
way or where he may have gotten this idea otherwise?> 

_____________________________ 



     I don't know if I'm on the same page as you, but is the question whether or not Jesus walked on water?  If so, doesn't the context pretty much dictate that He did?  Verse 47 says that the disciples were in a boat in the middle of the sea (lake), verse 48 says that Jesus went out to them and verse 51 says that He climbed into the boat with them.  That Jesus walked on the water in order to reach them seems to be the natural conclusion. 
     Sorry if I've misunderstood something. 



Ted 



Theodore H. Mann 

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