Musing on John
Musing on John 6, 1 to 21
Is this just about showing through miracles that Jesus is divine?
In contrast to the records of these events in other Gospel, John’s retelling is after a lifetimes reflection. Are there any significant differences?
Observations:
So the wind must have been against the disciples as they crossed the lake because the crowd could keep up.
Mountains around the Sea of Galilee are more like an average hill.
A days wages was one dinari, the Greek has Philip saying food would cost more than 200 dinari.
The Greek doesn’t say ‘so they sat down’ but ‘the men sat down, so 5000 men, plus women and children (so more like 5000 dinari needed!)
Bread was such an essential it was considered ‘sacred’ in the Middle East (still is), so it was unheard of not to pick up the pieces. They collected one basket full for each of the disciples -but no basket for Jesus.
Jesus provides a meal - women’s work in his day. He...