Jesus Walks on Water
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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After miraculously feeding thousands of people, Jesus walked on water! Find out what this sign revealed about Jesus, what His disciples’ reaction revealed about them, and how God uses trials in a believers’ lives. Listen to Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | Right now. Right after he miraculously fed thousands with a few loaves and fishes, Jesus performed another miracle. |
| 0:31.7 | He walked on water. |
| 0:33.8 | And today on Truth for Life, Alastur Begg examines this passage to find out what this sign revealed about Jesus, what his disciples' reaction revealed about them, and how God uses trials in the lives of believers. |
| 0:53.5 | Well, I don't know if you keep a journal. I keep a journal. I don't know why I do after all these years. |
| 0:58.3 | No one could possibly read it. And even if they read it, it would be of very little interest, I'm sure. |
| 1:04.1 | But I was thinking, as I came to these particular verses, that if any one of these disciples had been a journal person, then for sure |
| 1:14.0 | this day would have gone in the journal. And whether it was Andrew or Philip themselves |
| 1:19.8 | writing the journal or one of the others, they would presumably have included many of these |
| 1:25.3 | details. Perhaps someone saying, you know, Philip was asked by |
| 1:30.6 | Jesus about this, but I do remember that Andrew was the one who introduced us to the little boy. |
| 1:38.1 | Nobody who was present would be able to forget the occasion. That's not the same as saying |
| 1:42.5 | that everybody enjoyed the occasion or that everybody understood the occasion. That's not the same as saying that everybody enjoyed the occasion or that |
| 1:45.2 | everybody understood the occasion. In fact, the reaction of the crowd was such that Jesus decided |
| 1:51.8 | to leave almost immediately. In fact, in Mark's reference, there is a very abrupt end to the story |
| 1:59.0 | of the feeding, and Jesus moves away very quickly. He dispatches |
| 2:04.7 | his disciples, he dismisses the crowd, and he then goes up into the mountain to pray. There's |
| 2:12.7 | a wonderful picture there of Jesus that we might almost miss, insofar as he is the one who finally brings |
| 2:19.7 | closure to it all. He says to the disciples, you can go on now, I'll wait here and finish things up. |
| 2:27.6 | And when I've finished things up, then I will go and talk with my father. And of course, |
| 2:32.5 | that's exactly what happens. And as a result of that, |
| 2:35.7 | the scene is then said for another miracle. And what we have here is just that. It is a powerful, |
| 2:44.5 | visible demonstration of the sovereignty of Jesus over the entire world that he has created. |
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