Monday, March 29, 2010

Troubled silence- 5:1

So here after this incredible event – with enough to dwell on for months and years to come for the participants, we get the next sentence- “ They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. There's no description of how that period of time between sitting in boats awestruck to reaching the shore went. What were the next words spoken? What does Jesus say next? I would think the silence would have continued for at least the next 10 minutes, after perhaps whatever communication had taken place to set the boats on the journey once again. We don't get the inner commentary we would in a modern day account- Just on to the next event, which is described in the same matter of fact way though it is very extraordinary as well. (Did the disciples sleep that night? or was their adrenline well and truly spent- and they could have slept in boats in huge storms?)

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