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You can’t make this stuff up.  A man who walks on water, feeds thousands of people from an empty pantry, cures lifelong illnesses with just a touch and a prayer.  And never passes the collection plate for a single dime!  Come on. 

 

Oh, and don’t forget his bumbling, can’t-ever-seem-to-get-it-right sidekicks … especially the brash, rash Peter, my favorite example of hot-and-cold running faith gone awry.  I’ve often said that if I were to write this story, I’d clean it up, make it much more believable.  (At the very least, I’d put in a chapter or two about how Peter eventually found his groove, went out to talk the talk and walk the walk … and eventually even die the death for what he came to believe.)  But what do I know?

 

I know that this story of Jesus and the disciples is way too honest and unflattering to be a tale spun by guys with too much time on their hands and wine in their bellies.  To me, that makes this story very, very believable.  Its raw, sometimes inconsistent honesty works for me.  — jri

 

“We did not follow cleverly invented

        –    St. Peter (that stumbling, bumbling apostle)

               (2 Peter 1:16-18)