REL 253: Study Guide 10

4.35–41 & ||s: power over nature (cf. Gen 1.1–3)

What is the point of this pericope? How does it compare with the stories in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas?

8.1–9.1 (esp. 8.27–33, 9.1) & ||s

Cf. feeding of 5,000 in Mk 6.30–44, Mt 14.13–21, Lk 9.10–17

What do you make of these 5 narratives that seem to share a common structure & themes, yet differ in details?