KJV ORIGINAL
But when they saw him walking upon the sea, they supposed it had been a spirit, and cried out:
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
But when they saw him actually walking on the water, they thought he was a ghost and started screaming.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
Sometimes miracles are so wild they're genuinely terrifying at first.
📚 Historical Context
In the Gospel of Mark, this verse occurs during Jesus' ministry in Galilee, shortly after He miraculously fed a crowd of five thousand people. Jesus sent His disciples ahead by boat across the Sea of Galilee while He went to pray on a mountain, and a storm arose that frightened them. When they saw Jesus walking on the water, their reaction of thinking He was a spirit reflects the first-century Jewish and Greco-Roman cultural beliefs in supernatural entities like ghosts.
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