Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, John by R F Weymouth
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of the five barley loaves--the broken portions that remained
over after they had done eating--they filled twelve baskets. 006:014 Thereupon the people, having seen the miracle He had performed, said, "This is indeed the Prophet who was to come into the world." 006:015 Perceiving, however, that they were about to come and carry Him off by force to make Him a king, Jesus withdrew again up the hill alone by Himself. 006:016 When evening came on, His disciples went down to the Lake. 006:017 There they got on board a boat, and pushed off to cross the Lake to Capernaum. By this time it had become dark, and Jesus had not yet joined them. 006:018 The Lake also was getting rough, because a strong wind was blowing. 006:019 When, however, they had rowed three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the water and coming near the boat. 006:020 They were terrified; but He called to them. "It is I," He said, "do not be afraid." 006:021 Then they were willing to take Him on board; and in a moment the boat reached the shore at the point to which they were going. 006:022 Next morning the crowd who were still standing about on the other side of the Lake found that there had been but one small boat there, and they had seen that Jesus did not go on board with His disciples, but that His disciples went away without Him. 006:023 Yet a number of small boats came from Tiberias to the neighbourhood of the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. 006:024 When however the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor His disciples were there, they themselves also took boats and came to Capernaum to look for Jesus. 006:025 So when they had crossed the Lake and had found Him, |
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