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Jesus preaches in a ship by James Tissot. This narrative is told in Matthew 13:1-3, [1] Mark 4:1, and Luke 5:1-3. [2] Owing to the vast crowds that followed him from the surrounding towns and villages to listen to his doctrine, Jesus retired to the sea coast. There he entered a boat, that he used as a pulpit, and addressed the crowd on the shore.
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. The New International Version translates the passage as: "Come," he said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus.
Jesus is pictured right in the middle of the painting with an aurora and lit by the sun, standing on Simon's boat with a few other followers. On the banks are there a large number of figures that are also partially lit by the sun. Close to their right fish are loaded into reed baskets from rowing boats, possibly a reference to the miraculous catch.
Realizing the identity of their advisor, the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" [6] at which Peter jumped into the water to meet him (an aspect of the story often illustrated in Christian art), while the remaining disciples followed in the boat, towing the net, which proved to be full of 153 large fish. The fish caught ...
The boat is also important to Christians because this was the sort of boat used by Jesus and his disciples, several of whom were fishermen. [4] Boats such as this played a large role in Jesus' life and ministry, and are mentioned 50 times in the Gospels , though there is no evidence connecting the Sea of Galilee Boat itself directly to Jesus or ...
In Luke, Simon Peter owns the boat that Jesus uses to preach to the multitudes who were pressing on him at the shore of Lake Gennesaret. [48] Jesus then amazes Simon and his companions James and John (Andrew is not mentioned) by telling them to lower their nets, whereupon they catch a huge number of fish. Immediately after this, they follow him ...
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. The New International Version translates the passage as: Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and ...
It depicts the story of Jesus sending the apostle Peter to find a silver coin in the mouth of a fish as recounted in the Gospel according to Matthew 17:24-27. [1] The composition was referred to as the "Ferry Boat to Antwerp" by the 17th-century German art historian and painter Joachim von Sandrart who interpreted the composition as a genre ...