Matthew 14:22-27 And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him to the other side… The difficulty here is our Lord's withdrawing Himself personally from the control of earthly natural laws. It is common to conceive of the glorifying of Christ's body as the work of a moment, at the Resurrection, or, at least, at the Ascension. But if we suppose the Spirit's work in glorifying and perfecting Christ's body to have been spread over the Saviour's whole life, certain periods — such as this walking on the sea, and the transfiguration — being still distinguished as seasons of special activity, much that is obscure will be made clear. A body thoroughly of the earth, chained down by unseen hands to earthly matter, cannot shake itself free from its origin, but that a higher bodily frame, teeming with the powers of a loftier world, should rise above the earthly level is less surprising. This manifestation of Christ's hidden glory was designed to build up His disciples in the faith. They saw more and more clearly with whom they had to do, and perceived that He was the revelation of the invisible Father, who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea. (Olshausen.) Parallel Verses KJV: And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away. |
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