John 6:16-21

Jesus Walks on the Water

16 Now when evening came, his disciples went down to the sea.

17 And getting into a boat, they began to go to the other side of the sea, to Capernaum. And it had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.

18 And the sea began to be stirred up [because] a strong wind was blowing.

19 Then [when they] had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were afraid.

20 But he said to them, "[It] is I! Do not be afraid!"

21 So they were wanting to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat came to the land to which they were going.

Footnotes

• [a]. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to go")
• [b]. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to be stirred up")
• [c]. *Here "[because]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("was blowing") which is understood as causal
• [d]. *Here "[when]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had rowed") which is understood as temporal
• [e]. A "stade" or "stadium" (plur. "stadia") is about 607 ft (187 m), so this was around 3 miles (5 km)