# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S945
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

360 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

when even was now come, His disciples went down unto
the sea and entered into a ship and went over the sea
toward Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus was
not come to them. And the sea arose by reason of a
great wind that blew. So when they had rowed about »
five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking
on the sea and drawing nigh unto the ship; and they were
afraid. But He saith unto them, “It is I; be not afraid!”
Then they willingly received Him into the ship. And im-
mediately the ship was at the land whither they went.
The day following, when the people which stood on
the other side of the sea saw that there was none other ©
boat there, save that one whereinto his disciples were en-. .
tered, and that Jesus went not with His disciples into the
boat, but that His disciples were gone away alone —
(Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias nigh unto.
the place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord
had given thanks) — when the people therefore saw that
Jesus was not there, neither His disciples, they also took —
shipping and came to Capernaum, seeking for Jésus. ve
And when they had found Him on the other side of
the sea, they said unto Him, “Rabbi, when camest Thou
hither?” Jesus answered them and said, “Verily, verily,
I say unto you, Ye seek Me, not because ye saw the mir-
acles, but because ye did eat of the loaves and were filled.
Labor not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat .
which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of:
Man shall give unto you; for Him hath God the Father
sealed.” -
Thoughts for Meditation

1. “Following Christ” does not necessarily make one His ©
disciple. The Jews who were eager to make Christ their King,
surely went to great pains to “follow” Him — they crossed the
Sea of. Galilee — but they were following a Christ of their own
imagination. The Christ whom we Christians follow is the +
Savior revealed in Scripture, the eternal Son of the Father, “the
Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world.” a.

29. “Labor not for the meat which perisheth, but for that -
meat which endureth unto everlasting life” (v. 27). How similar