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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - John 6:19 - 6:19
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they see Jesus - “about the fourth watch of the night” (Mat 14:25; Mar 6:48), or between three and six in the morning.
walking on the sea - What Job (Job 9:8) celebrates as the distinguishing prerogative of God, “WHO ALONE spreadeth out the heavens, and TREADETH UPON THE WAVES OF THE SEA” - What AGUR challenges as God’s unapproachable prerogative, to “GATHER THE WIND IN HIS FISTS, and BIND THE WATERS IN A GARMENT” (Pro 30:4) - lo! this is here done in flesh, by “THE SON OF MAN.”
drawing nigh to the ship - yet as though He “would have passed by them,” Mar 6:48 (compare Luk 24:28; Gen 18:3, Gen 18:5; Gen 32:24-26).
they were afraid - “cried out for fear” (Mat 14:26), “supposing it had been a spirit” (Mar 6:49). He would appear to them at first like a dark moving speck upon the waters; then as a human figure, but - in the dark tempestuous sky, and not dreaming that it could be their Lord - they take it for a spirit. (How often thus we miscall our chiefest mercies - not only thinking them distant when they are near, but thinking the best the worst!)