But can further evidence for such a way of thinking also be found elsewhere in John’s Gospel? One possibility to consider is how we read that gospel’s accounts of Jesus walking on water (and indeed the parallel passages in the Synoptics). Given the three-decker universe, it looks as if they were intended to imply rather more than just Jesus’ power over the elements. For a contemporary there would also inevitably have come to mind mastery over the forces of chaos and evil. So the event once constituted a natural argument for divinity in a way that is much less obvious to us with our quite
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Examplea of interpretation with symbols in the Bible - Jesus walking on water
